Who buys their own servers now? Well that is funny in a sad way. You may be looking at this in ten years and hopping to another lily pad. Anyone who needs 4 9'

Who buys their own servers now? Well that is funny in a sad way. You may be looking at this in ten years and hopping to another lily pad. Anyone who needs 4 9's or better has some kind of hardware presence even if they are heavily invested in the cloud. Full stack (hardware->development) SAs are a vanishing breed but I am one of them. I can spend 24k a year on colo with 150K invested in hardware and beat the hell out of cloud providers long term...for now.