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In actuality, how many startups have switched from <cloud> to an alternative setup? Truth of the matter is that once a startup gets to a certain size, they use
by ec109685 5y ago
In actuality, how many startups have switched from <cloud> to an alternative setup? Truth of the matter is that once a startup gets to a certain size, they use these to lock in savings versus moving to bespoke infrastructure: https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-edp/ https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-edp/
- Nextgrid 5y agoA lot of startups perpetually run on VC money and don't particularly care about becoming profitable. But those that do make it sometimes shift at least some of their infrastructure - see Dropbox or Netflix (with edge caches), Cloudflare, etc.
- notreallyserio 5y agoIt probably depends a lot on whether the startup is selling a service or collecting eyeballs to sell to advertisers. Cloud could be a lot more efficient (all told) for the former than the latter.