Yes, we used baremetal and digital ocean before that. Why? Mostly because of cost and it seemed simple than building out stuff on cloud services. Every Friday

Yes, we used baremetal and digital ocean before that. Why? Mostly because of cost and it seemed simple than building out stuff on cloud services. Every Friday night, our services got ddosed by our competitors. Provider would nullroute our IPs and our service goes down We struggled with it a lot since we were not big enough to afford a premium ddos solution. Once we realized that big cloud like aws, gcp do not suffer from this, we had to make a switch.