Is every remote server a cloud server?
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Not every server, but yes, most.
The big appeal of cloud is that designed well it’s rapidly scalable. If you need 100 servers to do something then you need 1000 later on in the afternoon because of peak use everything scales automatically if it’s setup right. During non peak use that hardware can be used to do something else like run simulations for people willing to wait a bit for a discount.
Even if you rent out a dedicated server for some reason like needing the security of not having other stuff running on your hardware the software that picks out what you get and sets it up is all effectively cloud based.
But there are still situations that you wouldn’t be using cloud stuff. The first one that comes to mind is high security stuff. You don’t want other people putting their mitts on your hardware, so that kindof precludes shuffling data around to random computer you don’t own. Past a certain point you are going to have enough hardware that running your own private cloud makes more sense from a maintainability standpoint, but if you only have like 100 employees a couple secure e-mail and file servers is probably fine. Even if security isn’t necessary plenty of places will run local servers and the like in their buildings that people can remote into to get stuff done.
On a smaller scale something like a private Minecraft server your friend is hosting on a computer in his basement would also very much not be cloud based.
No. Cloud servers are remote but not all remote servers belong to a “cloud”. You can set up a server remotely – say in an office and access it via the internet. This merely makes it remote.
Cloud services are typically very large third party providers. In essence, the person utilizing the service does not own or operate the hardware. They rent it or lease it from a third party. This third party can scale up or down these services based on the service agreement and typically operates very large servers or storage networks – typically called a warehouse.
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