How The Amazon Web Hosting Crackdown Threatens Platforms like Patreon, Substack, And You: AWS threatens the economic independence of anyone who dares to have different ideas than their speech monitors.

The Federalist ^ | 09/07/2021 | Joy Pullman

[algore]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-launches-azure-cloud-in-a-box/

I remember talking with people about this, it can run standalone, or you can failover to azure cloud.

and dell will sell you as much on prem capacity as you will pay for.

if you run standalone, then your host is the only real issue

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Every IT maven who is honest will tell you to avoid “the cloud” like the plague. It is not safe, not secure, and not reliable.

[bluejean]

We are so steeped in 1984 it boggles the mind. And what ever hasn’t been assimilated in this process is going there by the hour. Wow. Didn’t really think this would happen to the mighty U.S.A in my lifetime.

[algore]

When the cloud breaks and the bit flood destroys large enterprise cashflow there will be much sorrow.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I didn’t realize Substack was hosted on AWS - if so, it’s really unfortunate. Undoubtedly Amazon will attempt to impose “guidelines” restricting what heretics like Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss are allowed to say.

[Gene Eric]

Oracle prolly wouldn’t mind having the business.

[ConservativeMind]

There are plenty of non-woke cloud providers:

https://www.guru99.com/cloud-computing-service-provider.html

[Myrddin]

I just closed my AWS account. It had been costing me $1 a month for a micro EC2 instance with RHEL. I hadn't used the VM for well over a year. My account got hijacked and I suddenly had $1200 in charges for June, $2200 for July and $718 for August. Six extra large instances of Window with SQL Server databases. I filed a complaint with AWS. It took 5 weeks to clean it up. I deleted all of the hijacker's instances, credentials and keys as well as the snapshots. That put a stop to service theft charges against my account. The final resolution was "forgiveness" of the service used in June and refunds to my credit card for July and August billing. Once resolved, I decided that closing the account was the best approach to prevent another hijack. My employer can provide secured instances on AWS if they was stuff up there. I don't want my credit on the line with the security exposure.

[jroehl]

ping

[The Duke]

I've got a fully loaded Dell micro-tower that I'm installing Proxmox on. AWS-in-a-very-small-box. :)

I have to get my "fix", but I don't have to pay AWS to get it.

[jhastey]

Those who want to publish freely should move their pages to Russian servers - at least they still have more respect for Freedom of Speech than do the Democrats.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Monopolies should be destroyed.

[Socon-Econ]

Needed: an a antitrust remedy.

[Steven Tyler]

Anybody look into Raspberry PI 400.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86D_6yh1nk
Some internet guys suggest you can create your own cloud, and the cost is $0.00

What do you know, what do you here

[CodeToad]

I have said since the cloud was branded: The cloud owns your data, not you. Never use the cloud as it places your business at risk. Some businesses need the cloud for good reasons but they need to leave it as soon as they can.

[jimjohn]

Bookmark

[Dick Vomer]

The left will continue to do this until someone pushes back.

Want to see the beginning of mass incarceration and population control. Look around.

Maybe the plumbers, electricians, ground crews, landscapers and domestic help of the billionaires might decide that they work for the enemy and ……nah. Never mind.

[Myrddin]

I wanted a bit more than Dell could offer, so I built my latest from parts. The last build from 2013 was an MSI motherboard, i7-2600k, 32 GB RAM, 650 W PS, 4 TB SATAIII SSD. The new build is another MSI motherboard. This one has an i9-10850K, 64 GB RAM, 2 x 1 TB NVMe SSD, 850 W PS and a 360mm water cooler for the CPU. Plenty of horsepower. I put up a wide screen monitor that oddly caused the old i7 system to fail POST. I didn't understand the problem. Replaced the CPU with a cheap i5. Same problem. Put an old 1080P HDMI monitor on it...boots fine. Arrggg! The old BIOS has resolution limits. That even occurs through a 3rd party video card on the PCIe bus. That machine just has to live on a lower resolution monitor.

[9YearLurker]

“Has no plans” is the mark of certainty that it is coming.