> Man I wish HN had a downvote option for articles that are just not worth reading. I have to strongly disagree with this sentiment. Thoughts which are against

> Man I wish HN had a downvote option for articles that are just not worth reading. I have to strongly disagree with this sentiment. Thoughts which are against mainstream deserve to be visible and thus open for debate. My company for example decided to go with our own production hardware. I'm not saying it's easy. But it's doable. And very educational. =) One has to remember that running your systems on 3rd party cloud provider will not strip you from responsibility and/or software maintenance cycle which usually presents most of the "human workload". Their nines are not yours. According to my experience with two reliable machines (redundant PSU's etc) one can create a very reliable service platform. Using correct kind of management tools of course is essential. RAID disk system and a reliable backup arrangement are essential too. We used Ganeti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganeti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganeti) in our 1st generation setup. The next generation will use our own manager (Deux).