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I can’t understand how cloud means “simple and cheap” to so many people and companies. In fact it’s the absolute opposite. There’s tons of much, much more powe

I can’t understand how cloud means “simple and cheap” to so many people and companies. In fact it’s the absolute opposite. There’s tons of much, much more powerful and cheap servers you can get online than those of the major clouds, often with little or no traffic fees. Most companies are too lazy to even investigate the choices.

gsatic 4y ago
More than laziness, it's too complex a problem for most decision makers. Environment is ever changing and extremely competitive. Most people don't handle such problems well and few get the training or have the support. It's pretty much like crypto. Most people are sold shit they have no capacity to understand. So the story writes itself. These are info asymmetry problems and society and business hasn't been dealing with them at such scales for too long. So solutions are a work in progress.
papito 4y ago
The cloud is great when you are starting out, but at scale you are going to hemorrhage money. This is why it's dangerous to tie yourself to all those cloud "toys" and then rapidly expand. If I just want to have my own little home page, a micro EC2 instance will do just fine - I don't want to go to a colocation for that. Once you are at scale, you need to get out of the cloud. I agree with DHH on this. https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0 https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...