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The flip side of this is very large enterprises with fleets of thousands to tens of thousands of servers and tech staffs in the hundreds to thousands that with
by Terretta 5y ago
The flip side of this is very large enterprises with fleets of thousands to tens of thousands of servers and tech staffs in the hundreds to thousands that with 50 years experience self-hosting, still manage to TCO some 2x - 10x above AWS / Azure retail list pricing, while also taking 9 months to provision a VM on a server.
- fuzzylightbulb 5y agoPointing out that some companies are bad at "self-hosting" is not an argument for cloud. Its an argument to be better at "self-hosting".
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoWhen you are making the choice of whether to self-host or not, why assume that you are going to be good at it? Many companies aren't.