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Digital Ocean calls servers "droplets" Linode calls servers "nodes" Hetzner calls servers... "servers" Just curious how people feel about companies using their own language/vocab?

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar

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Sometimes it's necessary because it's slapping a unique identifier on them so you can refer to them when discussing differences. Otherwise you'd had to say "Digital Ocean servers" vs "Linode servers" which becomes a mouthful.

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