# Cloud-Exiter

> Stop paying the cloud tax and self-host like a pro — deep dives, cost analyses and incident write-ups.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/en/llms.txt)

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Section pages:

- [Those Who Left the Cloud Made a Killing](/en/cloud/cloud-exit-2026/)
- [Why Are People Who Leave Big Tech So Useless?](/en/cloud/waste/)
- [FastJSON Broke Again. Why?](/en/cloud/fastjson-boom/)
- [If There Was No Impact, Please Ignore This](/en/cloud/rds-mysql-crash/)
- [Huawei Cloud Incident: Was IAM Involved?](/en/cloud/huawei-iam/)
- [Alibaba Cloud's 1 QPS DNS Limit Sent Me to Cloudflare](/en/cloud/aliyun-dns/)
- [Xianyu, Qianwen, Alipay: Platform Trust 'Empowers' a Scam](/en/cloud/ali-scam/)
- [The Data Sovereignty Manifesto](/en/cloud/data-sovereignty-manifesto/)
- [Your SaaS, Someone Else's Kill Switch](/en/cloud/slack-exit/)
- [Digoal, the Face of PostgreSQL at Alibaba Cloud, Has Left](/en/cloud/digoal-leave-aliyun/)
- [When AI Gets the Power to Gridlock a City](/en/cloud/robo-clog/)
- [OpenClaw Broke npm Again: What Happens When You Ship Without Testing](/en/cloud/openclaw-drama/)
- [Meituan Deleted Users' Photos: Overbroad Permissions Are Worse Than a Privacy Leak](/en/cloud/meituan-purge-photo/)
- [Tencent Cloud 'Reduced' the Lobster King's Load by 180 GB](/en/cloud/tencent-openclaw/)
- [Shockwaves at Alibaba Qwen: The Soul of the Team Walks Away](/en/cloud/qwen-leave/)
- [Claude's Global Outage: Missiles or a Success Tax?](/en/cloud/claude-outage/)
- [Drones Took Out Three AWS AZ: Into the Era of Bombable Data Centers](/en/cloud/aws-me-bomb/)
- [Did RedNote Exit the Cloud?](/en/cloud/rednote-cloud-exit/)
- [Alipay, Taobao, Xianyu Went Dark. Smells Like a Message Queue Meltdown.](/en/cloud/alipay-crash/)
- [Cloudflare’s Nov 18 Outage, Translated and Dissected](/en/cloud/cf-ck-down/)
- [Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase, the giant free loader](/en/cloud/aliyun-supabase/)
- [AWS’s Official DynamoDB Outage Postmortem](/en/cloud/aws-postmotem/)
- [How One AWS DNS Failure Cascaded Across Half the Internet](/en/cloud/aws-dns-failure/)
- [Column: Cloud-Exit](/en/cloud/exit/)
- [KubeSphere: Trust Crisis Behind Open-Source Supply Cut](/en/cloud/kubesphere-rugpull/)
- [Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?](/en/cloud/rds-duckdb/)
- [Escaping Cloud Computing Scam Mills: The Big Fool Paying for Pain](/en/cloud/patsy/)
- [OpenAI Global Outage Postmortem: K8S Circular Dependencies](/en/cloud/openai-failure/)
- [WordPress Community Civil War: On Community Boundary Demarcation](/en/cloud/wordpress-drama/)
- [Cloud Database: Michelin Prices for Cafeteria Pre-made Meals](/en/cloud/rds-scam/)
- [Alibaba-Cloud: High Availability Disaster Recovery Myth Shattered](/en/cloud/aliyun-ha/)
- [Amateur Hour Opera: Alibaba-Cloud PostgreSQL Disaster Chronicle](/en/cloud/rds-failure/)
- [What Can We Learn from NetEase Cloud Music's Outage?](/en/cloud/netease/)
- [Blue Screen Friday: Amateur Hour on Both Sides](/en/cloud/bsod-friday/)
- [How Ahrefs Saved US$400M by NOT Going to the Cloud](/en/cloud/ahrefs-saving/)
- [Database Deletion Supreme - Google Cloud Nuked a Major Fund's Entire Cloud Account](/en/cloud/gcp-unisuper/)
- [Cloud Dark Forest: Exploding Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names](/en/cloud/s3-scam/)
- [Cloudflare Roundtable Interview and Q&A Record](/en/cloud/cf-interview/)
- [What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud's Major Outage?](/en/cloud/qcloud/)
- [Cloudflare - The Cyber Buddha That Destroys Public Cloud](/en/cloud/cloudflare/)
- [Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?](/en/cloud/luo-live/)
- [Analyzing Alibaba-Cloud Server Computing Cost](/en/cloud/ecs/)
- [Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?](/en/cloud/dba-vs-rds/)
- [Cloud-Exit High Availability Secret: Rejecting Complexity Masturbation](/en/cloud/uptime/)
- [S3: Elite to Mediocre](/en/cloud/s3/)
- [From Cost-Reduction Jokes to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency](/en/cloud/smile/)
- [Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud](/en/cloud/bonus/)
- [What Can We Learn from Alibaba-Cloud's Global Outage?](/en/cloud/aliyun/)
- [Harvesting Alibaba-Cloud Wool, Building Your Digital Homestead](/en/cloud/cheap-ecs/)
- [Cloud Computing Mudslide: Deconstructing Public Cloud with Data](/en/cloud/debris/)
- [DHH: Cloud-Exit Saves Over Ten Million, More Than Expected!](/en/cloud/odyssey-done/)
- [FinOps: Endgame Cloud-Exit](/en/cloud/finops/)
- [Why Isn't Cloud Computing More Profitable Than Sand Mining?](/en/cloud/profit/)
- [SLA: Placebo or Insurance?](/en/cloud/sla/)
- [EBS: Pig Slaughter Scam](/en/cloud/ebs/)
- [Garbage QCloud CDN: From Getting Started to Giving Up?](/en/cloud/cdn/)
- [Refuting "Why You Still Shouldn't Hire a DBA"](/en/cloud/no-dba-bullshit/)
- [Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First](/en/cloud/paradigm/)
- [Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?](/en/cloud/rds/)
- [Cloud RDS: From Database Drop to Exit](/en/cloud/drop-rds/)
- [Is DBA Still a Good Job?](/en/cloud/is-dba-good-job/)