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In the event of a fire: - In the Cloud, you restore a backup on another AZ and you're up and running. - On prem, your company is essentially dead. If you wan
by iLoveOncall 4y ago
In the event of a fire:
- In the Cloud, you restore a backup on another AZ and you're up and running.
- On prem, your company is essentially dead.
If you want to deploy to another region:
- In the Cloud, one more line in a CDK template.
- On prem, millions of dollars of investment and months of work.
- teerak 4y agoYou really haven't looked into the possibilities with dedicated hardware vendors in a very long time.
- luizcdc 4y agoServers on premise with regular backups stored in the cloud can still be cheaper than offloading all your compute, storage and backup to AWS.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoThe problem is not having the backups, it's restoring them. How do you restore backups when you have no servers to restore them on because they all burnt down?
- ericd 4y agoYou trivially and quickly lease them from Hetzner, OVH, or literally any of the other shops that lease out dedicated servers? Or large cloud instances. I don’t understand why you’re artificially constraining this? When we had colo’d servers, we still used cloud services where it made sense (especially S3, scaling storage sucks). I don’t think people are arguing for never using anything but your own equipment.
- doubled112 4y agoI worked at a software shop that survived not one but two fires. This was before cloud.
- DeathArrow 4y agoBecause if you have your own servers you are forbidden by law to back up data to another location.
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