Re:Google Cloud Is Down
by pmlnr on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:49PM
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Yep. The cloud is just a lot of cheap hardware acting together as a shitty mainframe.
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Server hardware is actually quite expensive. End users "smart" phones are cheap hardware, running dumb software which renders them as terminals for the cloud. That's sad because smartphone hardware is quite capable of doing useful work.
(For instance, I have a 500GB MicroSD card in my phone which contains a copy of my OwnCloud)