> they can shutdown your account if threats persisted
That problem can NEVER be avoided at any level unless you run absolutely everything (which is almost impossible).
What everyone does is have a system to quickly pass on and also shutdown who's 1 layer down. You receive a report and deal with the client.
> I was interested in building my own cloud
At the end of the day the problem has nothing to do with clouds. It happens everywhere e.g. if you rented out a house and someone did something illegal with it... how do you avoid it? All the same.
We actually ran out of my house in our very early stages at which case we owned everything. We had Google Fiber 8gbps for $150/mo. The only issue was the Google Fiber terms of service — ie they could shut us down at any time. This was one reason we went to colocation.
I guess you're right. Is it even possible to truly own everything yourself? Even if you open your own data center, at some point you have to agree to peer with big fiber providers like Segra, Lumen, AWS Edge Network, right?
> Is it even possible to truly own everything yourself?
Even if you do there's still more to it e.g. blacklists of different kinds e.g. known proxies, spam listings, etc that would still mean you need to kick out your client.
Then there's the bad clients you need to deal with e.g. if they send DoS from your network. Even if you don't get a report it will eat up your limited resources and you may be subject to revenges and bring down your infrastructure.
Conclusion: there's lots to it but so does every business. That's just life.
Yes I agree but there was always this fear I had/still have that if abuse gets too much, some providers might be unwilling to give proper support
This is why honestly I had been talking to more indie cloud providers and realized the whole space of low-endtalk and I think that a good compromise to the whole situation is as if I can rent servers but they can realize that at the end of the day, I am an indie solution myself and this is something which in my opinion is only possible with either large but specific cloud providers (fwiw upcloud although they blocked my account because I hadnt added card details or similar supports it and mostly small cloud providers support it)
No, they are rational. At least those with a lot of money.
> None of the investments going on have followed any semblance of fundamentals - it's all pure instinct and chasing hype
That's not what investments are about. Their fundamentals are if they can get a good return on their money. As long as the odds of the next sucker to buy them up exists it is a good investment.
> AI is basically a toy for 99% of us.
You do pay for toys right? Toy shops aren't irrational?
> Wall Street believes current $$$$$ capital investments will create massive long-term value
Clearly not. The stock market has a correction at least every few years. So Wall Street only believes they can sell the stock for higher within a few years. Not very long term is it?
If you could predict a stock market correction before it happens, you'd be very, very rich. The fact that corrections sometimes happen does not negate the existence of market-wide expectations for any given stock.
> If you could predict a stock market correction before it happens, you'd be very, very rich.
Same goes for if you can predict the price of a stock... but analysts do it anyway and set targets for stocks.
> The fact that corrections sometimes happen does not negate the existence of market-wide expectations for any given stock.
The crash or not is part of the expectation. Regardless of what you read on articles, those fund managers often sit out situations they don't deem worthy of investing.
The consumer economy is the reason for existence of everything else related to economics. Corps stressing the consumer economy is like the tail wagging and starving the dog. Amirite?
> everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI
The "better ROI" is the results of crooked financial schemes that steal from the consumer economy and redistribute to corporate fancies.
The circular debt schemes being employed here are going to be bailed out by the consumers by inflation and starvation, outright bailouts of the CDS market are quite likely as well.
Estonia changed the rules recently in regards to handing out VAT ID to non-locals. Not fun at all. Not to mention a SaaS business has extra costs related to accounting and tax.
The best remote options are likely US, Singapore or Hong Kong depending on what you need.
That problem can NEVER be avoided at any level unless you run absolutely everything (which is almost impossible).
What everyone does is have a system to quickly pass on and also shutdown who's 1 layer down. You receive a report and deal with the client.
> I was interested in building my own cloud
At the end of the day the problem has nothing to do with clouds. It happens everywhere e.g. if you rented out a house and someone did something illegal with it... how do you avoid it? All the same.