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> AWS/GC/Azure trounce colos because AWS/GC/Azure come with tooling that simply does not exist in the colos. Yes, out of the box tooling is part of the "centra
by root_axis 7y ago
> AWS/GC/Azure trounce colos because AWS/GC/Azure come with tooling that simply does not exist in the colos.
Yes, out of the box tooling is part of the "centralized" platform. In a decentralized world you stack some adhoc open-source tools and web dashboards atop your hand-rolled infrastructure. This is more work than a centralized solution that provides the metal and everything else you could possibly need (and everything you will never need) as a single centralized package.
> PXE boot without manual tweaks is still basically non-existent in the colo space. I could continue with these examples but it should be enough.
Those examples support my position.
> That's the reason why AWS/GC/Azure win, not because they are centralized.
They could not do this without being centralized, that's precisely the point.
- notyourday 7y agoNope. It does not have to do with centralization. It has to do with what the companies decided to do. Servint, Erols, DedicatedNow, DigitalNation, etc started before Amazon. So did EV1 or Choopa. They simply played a game of hardware rather than software tooling. As the hardware became more and more commoditized the software became more and more important. C/Panel and Plesk did not cut it. That's why Amazon/Google/Azure won.