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Man, between costs and shenanigans like this, why don't more companies self-host?
by Enginerrrd 5y ago
Man, between costs and shenanigans like this, why don't more companies self-host?
- dilyevsky 5y ago1. Leadership prefers to blame cloud when things break rather than take responsibility. 2. Cost is not an issue (until it is but you’re already locked in so oh well) 3. Faang has drained the talent pool of people who know how
- pm90 5y agoOpex > Capex. If companies thought about long term, yes they might consider it. But unless the cloud providers fuck up really badly, they're ok to take the heat occasionally and tolerate a bit of nonsense.
- dilyevsky 5y agoYou can lease equipment you know…
- emodendroket 5y agoIf you think that’s bad you should see the outages when you self host without a big enough team to really manage it.