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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:49AM (#38024322)
> start spinning up VMs

What a waste of resources.

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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer by pclmulqdq on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:13AM (#38024503)
When you start a container in AWS, do you think Amazon is letting you run that without a VM? VMs are pretty lightweight these days.
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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer by drzaiusx11 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:37AM (#38024712)
With hypervisor support it really isn't
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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:01AM (#38026486)
What this guy said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024122

If you have a rack like that you'd probably want it to run a real database or server backend.

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