Every time someone tells you "You can buy a server for 2000$ why pay Amazon 4500$?" show him/her this article. I've done on prem in the past, it's a real pain

Every time someone tells you "You can buy a server for 2000$ why pay Amazon 4500$?" show him/her this article. I've done on prem in the past, it's a real pain and I still remember it as a horrible experience. That being said, I think it's pretty easy to combine. One of the things we had in the earlier days is hosting the CI and other build/compile servers @ the office and all the rest was in the cloud. Even if you have some customer requiring something hosted on prem you can still host ALL OTHER clients on the cloud and this client on prem etc... Good post.