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"we have had to host it on physical tin". Is this an English English thing? In America, we would say "host on our own iron". Do other countries use different me
by dankohn1 11y ago
"we have had to host it on physical tin". Is this an English English thing? In America, we would say "host on our own iron". Do other countries use different metals?
- drrob 11y agoI'm English, and I have never used or even heard the phrase "host it on physical tin" before. Then again, I just tend to say "hosted on our own hardware" or just simply "self-hosted".
- petewailes 11y agoBritish person: I don't think this is one I've come across.
- f3y67j 11y agoAnother brit: just once, three years ago by a Programme Director determined to eradicate our IT dept "We are not going to feed and water our own tin!". I was equally bemused. However the outcome has been very detrimental to our org.
- techterrier 11y agoprobably cornish :D
- jinst8gmi 11y agoThey do make great pies :)
- techterrier 11y agodon't forget the ice cream!
- gaius 11y agoYep pretty common in the UK. The chargeback the IT department makes to other groups or projects for kit is called the "tin tax" too.
- SixSigma 11y agoMonty Python to the rescue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-51DhOzHE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-51DhOzHE
- simonjgreen 11y agoAlso a British person here. Also own an ISP. I hear that phrase all the time from suppliers to customers.
- robgough 11y agoJust to counter my fellow countryfolk, and because anecdata is the best kind of data, I have definitely heard it called that before ... though not so much recently. Perhaps it's a dying term?
- s_kilk 11y ago(Living in Scotland): I've heard the phrase maybe twice in all the years I've worked here.
- slight 11y agoIt means cheap commodity servers as opposed to iron which is beefy expensive servers.
- VSpike 11y agoWe (UK business) have a contractor who is ex-IBM and who says it all the time. It annoyed me at first but I've got used to it. That was the first time I'd heard it, but now I've become aware of it, I notice it a lot more.