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		smegger001 on Oct 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites The cloud can be more decentralized but it more expensive, Done properly having redundancy across multiple clouds aws, rackspace, google, azure, in geographically different areas with different internet service providers it can be done in a very distributed decentralized fashion, just no one actaully does that. Instead they throw everything on one provider and pray its is backed up and secured by that cloud provider better than the IT guy down the hall they just laid off.

paulddraper on Oct 22, 2016 [–]

If you're talking rendering some VPS's, sure that's possible.

But that's a fraction of the cloud. It's hard to integrate every service the hopeful equivalent of every other service.

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