>"You talk like using a physical server somehow prevents building a highly available system or from using automation. Why would the hardware be any more of a pe

>"You talk like using a physical server somehow prevents building a highly available system or from using automation. Why would the hardware be any more of a pet than any random VM in the cloud?" It is pure scaremongering and making not very nice assumptions about people's abilities without any real substance. If this is the idea of attracting customers or advocating the approach it seems like a very poor job.