I feel like you think that theres only two markets: "hyperscale cloud stuff" and colocation. Sure, nobody can drop $1000 on an ARM server and stick in 1U at the

I feel like you think that theres only two markets: "hyperscale cloud stuff" and colocation. Sure, nobody can drop $1000 on an ARM server and stick in 1U at their local colo. Do you want to? Is that what is fun for you? Or is it more about physical ownership? When I first started developing on AWS, I bought the company a beefy server so we could run virtual machines on it to "test it locally". We bought a dual socket supermicro board and put our choice of Intel Xeons on it. It ended up being north of $2000 (ten+ years ago). At the time AWS c1.xlarge were $0.80 per hour. Paying per hour just felt wrong. And then, within a few months, we had a working system, and we were running 250 c1.xlarge for hours on end, and charging 50x for the end result. The $2000 machine sat idle and was a total waste of money. We developed on our local machines (a Mac), and deployed to test machines on AWS. Now I pay some hosting company $x per month to host my eldest's minecraft server. I don't want to manage that shit! I have money but not time, and I use my time effectively. That means I don't waste my time buying and configuring servers.