Although it's a ton of rambling at times, I love the Oxide and friends podcast. As I'm interested in storage, the episode "Crucible, The Oxide Storage service"

Although it's a ton of rambling at times, I love the Oxide and friends podcast. As I'm interested in storage, the episode "Crucible, The Oxide Storage service" was awesome. P.S. renting physical servers or hosting in your own colo is also still viable, especially with amazing second-hand rack server prices. The cloud isn't the only option.