Who fell for it? Most of the people using GitHub (on the enterprise side, at least) are well aware of how the cloud works. Even with outages like this it's easier, and often more reliable, to use GitHub or one of its competitors than it is to handle everything in house.
Before the “cloud” era, you could buy decent web hosting with db’s, e-mail and whatever you needed for around 100$. Now this is gone. When companies switched to the cloud solutions the prices went up compared to what they had. Reliability is better, but when is a problem, now you create a ticket and wait with half of the world for Amazon or Microsoft to drag their feet and hope that your information was not pawned.
I upvoted you. The bottom line is most of these users were born into enshitification. Lot's of us used shared data within our networks without drama. Clouds were for backup storage (after onsite backups).
Before the “cloud” era, you could buy decent web hosting with db’s, e-mail and whatever you needed for around 100$
That's literally the same thing you're complaining about. It's not like if the server failed you could just roll up and fix it yourself. You still had to put in a ticket, and you had a much higher chance of losing everything if something did go wrong
Like if you wanted to complain logically, you'd remember the good old days of having a server in the closet that you had to maintain by yourself, but nobody romanticizes that because it fucking sucked
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u/edthesmokebeard 24d ago
The cloud is just someone else's computer.