Re:Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home
by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:55PM
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> Cloud = servers someone else has and mostly maintains for you
No, ”cloud = on-demand provisioned server resources”; that was what distinguished cloud computing from pre-existing remote-leased or on-premises resources. “Private cloud” (usually, on-premises of the user) has been a thing since very early in cloud computing, and “at home” has been plausible for even fairly casual users at least since Ubuntu 9.04 bundled Eucalyptus.
But this service is just abusing “cloud” to mean “SaaS”, I think (in that it's a demo of a paid SaaS product that incorporates your hardware.)
Re:Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home
by unknown2374 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:10PM
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No, cloud does not mean that. Generally the cloud means that you can access data stored on a cloud as long as you are connected to the internet (or the same network). I don't know where you got that definition of cloud from.
I think the biggest issue in this thread is the multiple definitions of what a cloud is. To most of the people in this thread, the cloud isn't possible at home. To consumers, the cloud is just somewhere else to store their files. This addresses the latter, giving consumers an easy way to store their files on a "server" i.e. their computers, while having it in your home.
Cloud...at home? This is a dumb headline. The definition of "server" has gone from big bulky slabs of bare metal to include smaller things like a RPi.