CloudExit
Escaping Cloud Computing Scam Mills: The Big Fool Paying for Pain
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A user consulted about distributed databases, but he wasn’t dealing with data bursting through server cabinet doors—rather, he’d fallen into another cloud computing pig-butchering scam.
What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud's Major Outage?
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Tencent Cloud’s epic global outage after Double 11 set industry records. How should we evaluate and view this failure, and what lessons can we learn from it?
Why Isn't Cloud Computing More Profitable Than Sand Mining?
Public cloud margins worse than sand mining—why are pig-butchering schemes losing money? Resource-selling models heading toward price wars, open source alternatives breaking monopoly dreams! Service competitiveness gradually neutralized—where is the cloud computing industry heading? How did domestic cloud vendors make a business with 30-40% pure profit less profitable than sand mining?
Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First
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Cloud databases’ exorbitant markups—sometimes 10x or more—are undoubtedly a scam for users outside the applicable spectrum. But we can dig deeper: why are public clouds, especially cloud databases, like this? And based on their underlying logic, make predictions about the industry’s future.