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Comment by lionkor | Hacker News Reader

For anyone else who may be confused - this is already the case in Cloud (obviously), but now will apply for Robot as well.

> This structure will be similar to our Cloud billing.

It says it here, but I glanced over it :)

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What is the difference between cloud and robot?

Cloud is VM's Robot is bare metal

s/‘s/s,/

Otherwise the VM possessive reads like:

    Cloud = VM’s Robot = bare metal

Thank you

Consequently cloud = bare metal; which agrees with the axiom that "it's not a cloud, it's just someone else's computer".

Traditionally, cloud referred to an abstraction above "someone else's computer", keeping the specific details of those computers hidden from the user, allowing the operator to do things like swap out the hardware, move the data to another datacenter, etc. without the end user ever noticing.

But tech people love to come up with new definitions for the same terms all the time, so anything goes.

Hetzner's cloud console (https://console.hetzner.cloud/) was introduced for their vServer migration (competing with the likes of Linode). Robot (https://robot.your-server.de/) was used for their vServers previously and is still used for their dedicated servers and domain names and such.

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