I'm not a fan of cloud too, but I have to admit that the networks of these big cloud providers built is just better than self-hosted ones. When they say they'll

I'm not a fan of cloud too, but I have to admit that the networks of these big cloud providers built is just better than self-hosted ones. When they say they'll distribute your file globally, they mean it, as long as you pay of course. But I would rather say, cloud is not for everyone. Especially in the case mentioned in the article. Think this: do you really REALLY need to distribute enlarged images globally at top speed? I bet most people just don't. Same thing goes for "scaling", it's true the cloud can do that very well, but do you really need it that bad?