We do a hybrid approach which I think makes sense for a lot of companies. Our mission critical stuff runs in the cloud, but anything that has to do with staging

We do a hybrid approach which I think makes sense for a lot of companies. Our mission critical stuff runs in the cloud, but anything that has to do with staging environments and development we do on-premises. It's pretty easy to host yourself, if you have a couple of decent engineers looking after it (depending on scope, of course!). Redundant power, redundant internet connections, and a few racks of Dell servers and gigabit switches. Why did I mention Dell? They just don't seem to die. We used HP for a few years but had a few bad experiences.