With the rapid development of the Internet, data centers have undergone tremendous changes.
I don't know when, people don't want to store too much data in the memory space of mobile phones and computers, but start to upload it in various cloud spaces. Coupled with the surplus of electricity in many parts of our country, many companies have begun to concentrate on building data centers to provide people with cloud services. The cost is cheap, and it just meets people's needs for it.
It is precisely because of this change in market demand that various cloud concepts are emerging, and a large number of cloud service providers have begun to accelerate the procurement of server clusters. Unknowingly, the cloud has become an area where various large enterprises are vying to deploy first, and cloud services have also been widely used in recent years .
Why do people choose the cloud?
In this day and age of technology upgrades, choosing which technology to adopt and using it correctly is very important. As a result, cloud technology emerged as the times require, and with rapid iteration, it has become the latest trend in market development.
The cloud is an Internet-driven platform where resources are transferred from servers to clients over the network, replacing the use of physical hardware and software .
Therefore, the purpose of using it is to expand the market and make global resources more diverse by interconnecting customers and retaining users in this field by utilizing the right resources at the right time.
The author believes that the biggest reason for everyone to use the cloud is that it provides people with the best backup system, no matter the size or format, the cloud provides a storage space for huge data, and when people need to retrieve these data, You only need to click download to easily transfer to the local.
Secondly, from a technical point of view, traditional physical servers are independent at a single point, and it is difficult to integrate technologies between servers, while cloud servers include cloud computing technology, which can integrate various software and hardware applications, thus complementing traditional Disadvantages of the server.
In addition, the cloud server is composed of server clusters, so its failure rate is very low and its security performance is better . Moreover, the cloud server has the function of preventing attacks and spoofing. Since the stored data is scattered in the cloud, even if one server is damaged, the data will not be lost.
Of course, everything has pros and cons, so we cannot generalize cloud services, and we can make a better decision only after we fully understand these advantages and disadvantages. So, what are the disadvantages of the cloud?
The increasingly exposed disadvantages of "Web2 cloud"
In fact, the disadvantages of the cloud have been gradually revealed since people choose cloud services.
- market monopoly
Cloud vendors must first ensure the data security of users or enterprises when building cloud platforms and providing cloud services, which invisibly increases the possibility of cloud platform monopoly.
Most of the advanced technologies are in the hands of a small number of large companies. Therefore, most users or enterprises will give priority to big brands when choosing cloud service providers.
- rely on network
The cloud is remotely accessible through the network. Although the network speed is increasing rapidly, compared with the local area network, the speed is still delayed. Once the network is interrupted or the network does not cover the area, the cloud service cannot be accessed.
- data breach
Cloud server users do not have as much control over data as traditional servers, because traditional servers are fully used by users themselves, and the stored data can only be seen by themselves, while cloud servers upload data to public clouds. If the cloud is attacked , then the data on the cloud can be easily stolen.
- reduced flexibility
For IaaS cloud services, users cannot control the infrastructure layer; for PaaS cloud services, users cannot control the infrastructure layer and platform software layer; facing SaaS cloud services, users lose control of the infrastructure layer, platform software layer and application software layer .
In addition, data is stored in the cloud. If the amount of data is huge, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive for users to move data. If the network speed is slow, it will inevitably seriously affect the flexibility of data control.
- The product is immature
Many cloud service vendors have launched a wide variety of cloud products, but they all work on their own, and there is no unified platform and standard to regulate. Therefore, whether the product can be used by people or enterprises must be carefully considered in terms of safety, stability and the factors of the enterprise itself.
Fundamentally speaking, cloud services still have many defects and areas that need to be optimized, and there is still a long way to go in the future . But on this long road, perhaps the Web3 cloud will become the key to solving the disadvantages of the existing cloud.
Why are you optimistic about Web3 cloud services?
Among all the elements that everyone thinks that Web3 should have, "decentralization" ranks first, and this is the main reason why we began to look forward to Web3 cloud services.
First of all, decentralization means removing the third party as a data center, and ensuring network security and credibility through decentralization, which can not only avoid the huge cost of data loss caused by the collapse of centralized servers, but also greatly reduce people's The cost of trust and the possibility of market monopoly.
Secondly, the way of Web3 cloud service is to use distributed storage and decentralized computing nodes, which you can understand as computing nodes and storage spaces all over the world.
Instead of relying solely on one or more centralized servers, computing tasks are divided into multiple small tasks and distributed computing nodes perform calculations, which can save costs, increase flexibility, and make the network more efficient. Safe and reliable.
The Web3 cloud computing technology based on blockchain can not only be used in existing traditional industries, but also can develop more decentralized smart contract application ecology.
Initially, Ethereum opened up a new era of blockchain with smart contracts, and has shown great value in the wave of DeFi and GameFi.
However, traditional smart contracts have limitations in supporting private data, games, AI, metaverse, etc., and cannot drive most real-world applications. Data protection and computing power scarcity are the biggest obstacles to its development.
Decentralization is opening up a new way of thinking for people, not only for the cloud, but also for the entire Web3 ecosystem.
People are beginning to be able to control their own information and data, and take corresponding actions according to their own wishes , at least this is very rare in the Internet age.
This is also the reason why we choose to focus on the Web3 cloud service track, because there is a demand in the market, so following up the iteration and development of related technologies will naturally become the focus of more and more people's attention.
Why do we care about Phala?
Readers who have read our previous articles should be familiar with this name.
PhalaNetwork wants to create a truly decentralized cloud computing network. In order to achieve trust and encryption, Phala chooses to build on the Secure Enclave trusted execution environment in modern processors.
That is to say, all calculations performed on the Phala network run in a trustless security zone, without a centralized execution program or data controller, ensuring the security, confidentiality and privacy of all calculation operations.
At the same time, Phala uses distributed computing nodes to replace data service centers, allowing any computing nodes from all over the world to join and provide available and stable computing services. The service audience can be expanded from single users to enterprise-level users, which significantly expands cloud computing. scale of use.
In addition, Phala Network is a blockchain network based on the scalable Substrate framework, so it can be freely combined with smart contracts, storage protocols or other decentralized data indexing services to connect many The cloud computing power of distributed devices ensures true decentralization at low cost and efficient operation.
In this way, decentralized cloud computing is no longer just a concept of academic research, but has become an important infrastructure that can strongly support the development of Web3 digital economy applications and markets.
The Phala network is playing such a leading role and is one of the important infrastructures that bring Web3 cloud services to people. Therefore, we choose to continue to pay attention to the growth of the Phala ecosystem, which will also be the main direction of our follow-up.
In addition, there are many high-quality projects in the Web3 ecological cloud service track that deserve your attention, such as Akash Network, Helium, 4EVERLAND, etc., and we will explore them carefully for you in the future.
At this moment, we stand at the forefront of the era leading to Web3. Decentralized cloud services must be the core infrastructure for the development of various ecosystems . We have decided to position ourselves as the builders of cloud service ecosystems. Welcome to witness the follow-up development of Web3 with us .
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