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What is your professional opinion of how much the balance has been shifted by this?

• toomuchtodo 11y ago
  I think its fairly persuasive for bootstrapped startups, and the SMB market. If you're a VC funded startup or an extremely large enterprise who can get substantial pricing discounts from cloud providers, it most likely doesn't play into your decision. I've already emailed a few clients who this might effect, and am interested to see what their responses are.
  • danieltillett 11y ago
    Thanks for this. I was doing the comparison for a new startup business with a high bandwidth requirement and I found it really hard to justify going down the cloud path. It looks even less reasonable now.
    • toomuchtodo 11y ago
      Oh, most definitely. If you're bandwidth intensive, might as well head straight for colo and your own gear: cloud providers rake you over the coals for moving bits in and out of their networks.