# Cloud-Exiter > Stop paying the cloud tax and self-host like a pro — deep dives, cost analyses and incident write-ups. --- LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt) --- Section pages: - [Those Who Left the Cloud Made a Killing](/cloud/cloud-exit-2026/) - [Why Are People Who Leave Big Tech So Useless?](/cloud/waste/) - [FastJSON Broke Again. Why?](/cloud/fastjson-boom/) - [If There Was No Impact, Please Ignore This](/cloud/rds-mysql-crash/) - [Huawei Cloud Incident: Was IAM Involved?](/cloud/huawei-iam/) - [Alibaba Cloud's 1 QPS DNS Limit Sent Me to Cloudflare](/cloud/aliyun-dns/) - [Xianyu, Qianwen, Alipay: Platform Trust 'Empowers' a Scam](/cloud/ali-scam/) - [The Data Sovereignty Manifesto](/cloud/data-sovereignty-manifesto/) - [Your SaaS, Someone Else's Kill Switch](/cloud/slack-exit/) - [Digoal, the Face of PostgreSQL at Alibaba Cloud, Has Left](/cloud/digoal-leave-aliyun/) - [When AI Gets the Power to Gridlock a City](/cloud/robo-clog/) - [OpenClaw Broke npm Again: What Happens When You Ship Without Testing](/cloud/openclaw-drama/) - [Meituan Deleted Users' Photos: Overbroad Permissions Are Worse Than a Privacy Leak](/cloud/meituan-purge-photo/) - [Tencent Cloud 'Reduced' the Lobster King's Load by 180 GB](/cloud/tencent-openclaw/) - [Shockwaves at Alibaba Qwen: The Soul of the Team Walks Away](/cloud/qwen-leave/) - [Claude's Global Outage: Missiles or a Success Tax?](/cloud/claude-outage/) - [Drones Took Out Three AWS AZ: Into the Era of Bombable Data Centers](/cloud/aws-me-bomb/) - [Did RedNote Exit the Cloud?](/cloud/rednote-cloud-exit/) - [Alipay, Taobao, Xianyu Went Dark. Smells Like a Message Queue Meltdown.](/cloud/alipay-crash/) - [Cloudflare’s Nov 18 Outage, Translated and Dissected](/cloud/cf-ck-down/) - [Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase, the giant free loader](/cloud/aliyun-supabase/) - [AWS’s Official DynamoDB Outage Postmortem](/cloud/aws-postmotem/) - [How One AWS DNS Failure Cascaded Across Half the Internet](/cloud/aws-dns-failure/) - [Column: Cloud-Exit](/cloud/exit/) - [KubeSphere: Trust Crisis Behind Open-Source Supply Cut](/cloud/kubesphere-rugpull/) - [Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?](/cloud/rds-duckdb/) - [Escaping Cloud Computing Scam Mills: The Big Fool Paying for Pain](/cloud/patsy/) - [OpenAI Global Outage Postmortem: K8S Circular Dependencies](/cloud/openai-failure/) - [WordPress Community Civil War: On Community Boundary Demarcation](/cloud/wordpress-drama/) - [Cloud Database: Michelin Prices for Cafeteria Pre-made Meals](/cloud/rds-scam/) - [Alibaba-Cloud: High Availability Disaster Recovery Myth Shattered](/cloud/aliyun-ha/) - [Amateur Hour Opera: Alibaba-Cloud PostgreSQL Disaster Chronicle](/cloud/rds-failure/) - [What Can We Learn from NetEase Cloud Music's Outage?](/cloud/netease/) - [Blue Screen Friday: Amateur Hour on Both Sides](/cloud/bsod-friday/) - [How Ahrefs Saved US$400M by NOT Going to the Cloud](/cloud/ahrefs-saving/) - [Database Deletion Supreme - Google Cloud Nuked a Major Fund's Entire Cloud Account](/cloud/gcp-unisuper/) - [Cloud Dark Forest: Exploding Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names](/cloud/s3-scam/) - [Cloudflare Roundtable Interview and Q&A Record](/cloud/cf-interview/) - [What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud's Major Outage?](/cloud/qcloud/) - [Cloudflare - The Cyber Buddha That Destroys Public Cloud](/cloud/cloudflare/) - [Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?](/cloud/luo-live/) - [Analyzing Alibaba-Cloud Server Computing Cost](/cloud/ecs/) - [Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?](/cloud/dba-vs-rds/) - [Cloud-Exit High Availability Secret: Rejecting Complexity Masturbation](/cloud/uptime/) - [S3: Elite to Mediocre](/cloud/s3/) - [From Cost-Reduction Jokes to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency](/cloud/smile/) - [Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud](/cloud/bonus/) - [What Can We Learn from Alibaba-Cloud's Global Outage?](/cloud/aliyun/) - [Harvesting Alibaba-Cloud Wool, Building Your Digital Homestead](/cloud/cheap-ecs/) - [Cloud Computing Mudslide: Deconstructing Public Cloud with Data](/cloud/debris/) - [DHH: Cloud-Exit Saves Over Ten Million, More Than Expected!](/cloud/odyssey-done/) - [FinOps: Endgame Cloud-Exit](/cloud/finops/) - [Why Isn't Cloud Computing More Profitable Than Sand Mining?](/cloud/profit/) - [SLA: Placebo or Insurance?](/cloud/sla/) - [EBS: Pig Slaughter Scam](/cloud/ebs/) - [Garbage QCloud CDN: From Getting Started to Giving Up?](/cloud/cdn/) - [Refuting "Why You Still Shouldn't Hire a DBA"](/cloud/no-dba-bullshit/) - [Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First](/cloud/paradigm/) - [Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?](/cloud/rds/) - [Cloud RDS: From Database Drop to Exit](/cloud/drop-rds/) - [Is DBA Still a Good Job?](/cloud/is-dba-good-job/)