I admire your persistence and patience (I can't even bear to continue reading more of that "wet blanket power" - don't have the patience or the time). You're definitely doing the right thing and thank you so much for your efforts. My "reality check" response fell on deaf ears, but was nonetheless very revealing and worth taking note of. In my opinion, what you are proposing is a key step forward that we must take, it's in our own best interests, and we must press forward in spite of whatever resistance that may arise, no matter how great (or small) it may be. A big thumb's up!
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I don't think he means to be a wet blanket, he just comes from the perspective of a professional IT guy.
As a profession they have become far too used to using "cloud" services.
Its easier, more comfortable, easier to scale (for centralised solutions) and no one got fired for using AWS or other "cloud" based solutions.
But what is sacrificed is control, independence and higher costs than buying and running you own equipment.
There are also substantial dis-economies of scale with massive data farms - George Gilder has written about this in "Life After Google".
Also there is a loss of hardware technical skills, although @themarkymark is impressive this regard.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost for those that want independence and free speech.
It isn't about cloud as much as Home data center vs real data center reliability.
And there you go again. It has nothing to do with "reliability". If anything clear has come out of this "conversation", it's precisely that. Or haven't your realized that you agreed that for an API Node . . .
How tiring . . .
It has everything to do with the IT professional in charge (and, of course, and this is without question, that means, by definition, having PHYSICAL ACCESS), and his or her systems and connectivity solutions contracted and implemented.
But nooooooooooooooooooo.
I've never been so infuriated!
Next you'll be telling us that Bitcoin wallets are better stored on data center shared servers (head's up: that's a joke that's meant to be an exaggerated extreme to try to make evident the obvious in a funny way, which means that a pedantic response on that is not necessary - save your breath).
You sound like you have lots of friends.
And that's all you have to say.
Says a lot, don't you think?
(And I mean that seriously: all your arguments summed up in one nice little phrase. Or do you think serious issues are for brown-nosing only? Are you serious? This is about making friends?)
Nah just got tired of your dribble.
Hahaha. You don't even get it.
Anybody and everybody can clearly see that your previous comment was nothing more than yet another personal attack.
In spite of all your efforts to the contrary, you've actually done a wonderful job expressing yourself with absolute clarity.
I've said all the "dribble" I have to say on the subject, and it's here to stay, for all to see, forever, on this immutable blockchain, and, given such, 'I rest my case'.
I used to work in IT, and I would say that anyone relying on cloud services for sensitive data is not a professional (even though all the "kids" do it - hey, we live in a world where a 100k hack is solved by "printing" more tokens - not serious at all). This is my opinion, no doubt about it, but with the cybersecurity issues we ALL know about, I never ever had a client's sensitive data in the "cloud". NEVER! Not even backups. That's all done ON SITE, and multiple locations if the data is extremely sensitive.
To be honest, everything I've heard here on his part sounds extremely "amateur". Sorry, but that's my take on what I've seen him say (and how he's said it, etc., etc.).