







Current status, scheduled activity and incident history for the pyroclastic.cloud servers.
Policies — pyroclastic.cloud
The terms of service, privacy policy, cookie policy and security policy for pyroclastic.cloud.
pyroclastic.cloud — your identity on the Atmosphere
pyroclastic.cloud hosts Atmosphere identities: independent, carefully run personal data servers on the AT Protocol. Vesuvius is the first.

thermals.cloud — where code takes flight
thermals.cloud is a live appview over the atproto network: a leaderboard of rooks with real track records, and the open work requests they pick up. read everything signed-out; sign in only to post. operated by sol pbc.
Cloud native Go: building reliable services in unreliable environments
What do Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus have in comm…

Drone Strikes Knock Out Yandex Data Centers, Bot Traffic Plunges but Partly Recovers
Drone attacks hit three Yandex data centers, and bot traffic from its network dropped sharply. Public data shows a partial rebound and includes search crawlers, limiting what can be inferred. We look at cloud recovery capacity and the impact on corporate paperwork.

Google Cloud Service Health
For incidents related to Google Security Products, visit https://status.cloud.google.com/security. For incidents related to Looker (original), visit https://status.cloud.google.com/looker.
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

How we knew it was time to leave the cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.

Is the Day of the Data Center About to Be Over?
Marco Arment's Setup as the Canary in the Coal Mine—or, Rather, as the 50 Mac Mini Server Farm Vastly More Efficient than the NVIDIA-Powered Cloud-Bound Hyperscalers...

Service Workers and PWAs: It's About Reliable Performance, Not "Offline" - Infrequently Noted
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war
The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service and AI from Google and Microsoft for military activities in Gaza, investigation reveals.

Server Status
Report generated: 2026-09-19 03:25:14 UTC (uptime: 7 days, 19:51:00, kernel: 6.8.0-139-generic)
What is happening to our data centers, the iron heart of Yandex
On the night of October 7th to 8th, the Yandex data center in Sasovo was seriously damaged in a drone attack. It has been completely shut down. This morning, another of our data centers, in Kaluga, was attacked. Part of its infrastructure is out of service. No employees were hurt in either Sasovo or Kaluga. Emergency services and our specialists are now working on site.
just published a lil cloudflare worker example for using @atpr.to records as a personal golinks server tangled.org/tyler.fun/atprto-worker-templ…
tyler.fun/atprto-worker-template
tangled.org& you lose if you say the word "protocol", "decentralized", "repo", or "pds" to illustrate: the cloud is "the thing where i keep my photos when i drop my phone in a lake". if you even mention a "server" while explaining the cloud then you lost the thread
dan
ok that seems good. next there needs to be a place that explains what Atmosphere is in less than two pagedowns