I think “the cloud” never claimed to be cheaper, though. Its promise is mainly that you’ll offset a lot of risks with it against a higher price. And of course

I think “the cloud” never claimed to be cheaper, though. Its promise is mainly that you’ll offset a lot of risks with it against a higher price. And of course the workflow with the cloud is very different, with virtual machine images and whatnot. Whether that’s worth the price is up debate, though. I hope we’ll get more mature bare metal management software, perhaps even standardized in some remote management hardware so you can flash entire bare metal systems. Right now I’m mostly running Debian stable and everything inside Docker on the host machine, making it effectively a Docker “hypervisor”. It can get you quite far, without leaking any application state to the host machine.