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Submission + - AWS crash causes smart beds to malfunction (dexerto.com)

Submitted by Kludge on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @02:17PM

Kludge writes: Dextero has an article about Eight Sleep’s $2,000 "smart beds" overheating and getting stuck upright because Amazon cloud services went down. This outage likely affected many /. readers who are tech savvy and love their unnecessarily cloud-connected products ;).

Submission + - Ask ./: Where are the complete hosting providers? 3

Submitted by Kludge on Sunday October 27, 2013 @06:44AM

Kludge writes: In 2000 there were thousands of email/web hosting businesses. In 2013 not much has changed.
To get my email/web/webmail/domain/VOIP/public-key/XMPP/VPN hosting I have to deal with five different service providers. Where are the complete hosting providers? The absence of competition in this area drives many to Google, making data siphoning easy for the NSA.
Why has hosting not advanced in the last 10 years? Where are the hosting providers that make end-to-end encrypted email/web/VOIP/XMPP easy and automatic for all my clients?

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