RTOS/Example Service Providers
< RTOS
- remote file storage services (e.g. “mount provider /home”)
- remote backup
- shared hosting services (“get you ~joe/public_html and ftp access”)
- dedicated hosting services (“here’s root access to an actual server we let you rent”)
- infrastructure-as-a-service (“here’s a virtual server, ssh as root”)
- platform-as-a-service (“here’s an API, package and upload your code, we run it the way we see fit”)
- application hosting (“tell us which app you want, and we run it for you the way we see fit”)
- software-as-a-service (“go to our website which does what you want”)
- IoT backends ("the data collected about you from IoT sensors, and the code that determines what happens in response resides on this website")
- computation service providers ("give us a bunch of data, we run our code on it and our website will tell you something interesting about it")