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Ubicloud is such a good idea. There's no reason why the major cloud providers need be considered more than data center providers. AWS 'bare metal' instances sho
by ko_pivot 2y ago
Ubicloud is such a good idea. There's no reason why the major cloud providers need be considered more than data center providers. AWS 'bare metal' instances should be priced as a commodity, just as the data centers it used to rent space from are. OSS software can and should do pretty much everything above that layer, with room for commercially licensed software as well, of course.
- candiddevmike 2y ago> There's no reason why the major cloud providers need be considered more than data center providers They have no incentive to do this or to offer low cost bare metal instances. If anything, the opposite incentive exists in my experience: make these instances extremely expensive and push everyone to cheaper, locked in managed services. Because surely anyone that needs bare metal has fat stacks of cash?! Making public cloud a commodity kills the major public cloud providers valuation, IMO.
- whizzter 2y agoThat's what we should hope projects like Ubicloud can provide, a way for the mid-tier providers that would've done PHP-hosting 10-15 years ago to have a competitive and _portable_ service offering.
- Havoc 2y agoIf you just need compute then big cloud doesn't really make sense. You're paying a huge premium for the lego block like ecosystem
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoNot exactly. The use-cases suitable for public IaaS are: 0. Temporary prototypes 1. Overflow capacity 2. One-time jobs It's also often used to evade local IT restrictions. In general, public IaaS is damn expensive and a waste of money for continuous, predictable workloads regardless of compute, storage, and/or networking usage.