Part of Friendsters death spiral was the decision to move to AWS, which was a technical disaster. On Cloud vs baremetal arguments. I respect people find cloud

Part of Friendsters death spiral was the decision to move to AWS, which was a technical disaster. On Cloud vs baremetal arguments. I respect people find cloud works and is valuable for them. This inspite of my own personal experiences, direct or indirect with cloud have been adverse. I agree with author, for me, for dollar and time effort, baremetal is just better economically and performance. Most recent. A web service I use heavily migrated from bare metal to cloud and their performance / reliability dropped significantly with numerous outages which tied me up on the phones to my clients. I gave them 6 months to get their act together, as a loyal client then gave up and moved elsewhere. Being a reasonably big client their sales tried to retain then win me back. Conversations were always the same: Me: Moved because you guys stopped being reliable, reliability is important to me. Ever since you moved to AWS you have been unreliable. Sales: we had to move to scale and grow Me: whats the point in moving if moving weakens your product. there are other ways to scale. Sale: we had to move to scale and grow