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> writing as somebody who runs a big collection of bare-metal hypervisors for ISP infrastructure purposes. I run a cloud SaaS company (3 employees). If I had t
by MattyMc 6y ago
> writing as somebody who runs a big collection of bare-metal hypervisors for ISP infrastructure purposes.
I run a cloud SaaS company (3 employees). If I had the skillset that it sounds like you do, I might be inclined to hose on bare metal. But I don't. I don't know what a 1U dual socket server is.
It would take me some time to build these skills, and to match the agility that the cloud offers. I don't think it's worth my time, and probably not the author's time, either.
- walrus01 6y agoabsolutely an understandable concern. One way of abstracting away the need to own or maintain physical servers while still achieving a definitive fixed monthly cost is to do as this other commenter has done, renting dedicated servers from a company that specializes in such: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372912