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pavlov on Feb 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What made your business take off that you ...

Usually this would be called a PaaS (Platform as a Service). It's another layer on top of a public cloud, AWS in this case.

Someone looking to save money on server costs by using a hosting company would effectively be going the other way in the stack: taking the cloud out of the equation and operating servers directly. The original poster in this thread acquired a hosting company to be able to provide this kind of service in their vertical.

saimiam on Feb 15, 2022 [–]

PaaS is probably the right term and you’re right that the original comment was about buying bare metal servers to offer value added services.

When I made my comment, it was half in jest so I didn’t think through every word choice of mine.

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