My comment[0] tries to explain the nuance and I would agree with you and both the GP in some sense.

For Entreprise, the shift will be towards hyperscalers as they want trust and less blame (Nobody got fired for picking AWS)

For consumers, we care about pricing and stability and control and we will move back to our own hardware or cheap VPS providers and self-host things.

The middle ground would be where the slight pain could be at in my opinion.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307410

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happyopossum 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> For consumers <snip> self-host things.

That's not how consumers work. That's a nerd/geek/hobbyist mentality.

If Ikea and Wayfair went out of business you wouldn't expect consumers too take up woodworking and build their own furniture en masse.

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For consumers/small orgs, how is the security at a cheap VPS provider going to be any better than at a cheap IaaS provider?

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collabs 4 hours ago | parent [-]

as long as you follow the herd (for example, disable password ssh login, only allow ssh key login, use something mind numbingly boring like debian stable, set up unattended updates, update and reboot every night, etc, don't use any exotic packages etc) I suspect you are simply not a worthwhile target even with LLM agents as opposed to humans

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Until your VPS provider has its management dashboard breached, allowing an attacker remote console and configuration access to your VMs and everything that enables.

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jodrellblank 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I dunno why you're getting downvoted, they don't even need their control plane breached, it could be a neighbouring VM running something out of date and an attacker getting out to the hypervisor and taking your disk images without you or the hosting company ever knowing.

	▲	digitaltrees an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Then buy hardware and go colo. a dell server off eBay would far exceed what most smbs need.