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> Who would you prefer to pay rent to? I'm aware that no man is an island in some sense, but I'm not comfortable with locking myself into one of 3 companies wh
by hotpotamus 4y ago
> Who would you prefer to pay rent to?
I'm aware that no man is an island in some sense, but I'm not comfortable with locking myself into one of 3 companies who need to increase their revenue by double digits year over year. And as you say, a lift and shift is basically setting money on fire. Currently I run sort of a hybrid approach with a small IaaS provider and a colo. It seems to work well for us both technically and financially though that seems to go contrary to what is considered conventional wisdom these days.
- Spooky23 4y agoThat’s awesome. The most important thing is to understand why you’re making the decisions that you do. Where I work, we can deliver most services cheaper on-prem due to our relative scale and cloud margins. But… we’re finding that vendors in the hardware space struggle to meet their SLAs. (Look at HPE — they literally sold off their field services teams and only have 1-2 engineers covering huge geographic regions. So increasingly critical workloads make the most sense in the cloud.