> And honestly it’s not hard to run modern Linux machines, that’s an old crones tale. I totally agree with that. I'm a dev, not a sysadmin. But I run several

> And honestly it’s not hard to run modern Linux machines, that’s an old crones tale. I totally agree with that. I'm a dev, not a sysadmin. But I run several Linux servers and can set up the network(s), the firewall, the apps and all that. It's not that hard. You can buy incredibly powerful machines today at a very cheap price. The 20 cores Asahi Linux ARM workstation, 128 GB of RAM recently posted here comes to mind... In the blog's author's word: "The Mac blew the AWS c6g.12xlarge Graviton instance with 48 ARM64 cores instance out of the water." Or this slightly older blog entry about someone running 25 Gbps fiber to the home. Not to the office. Not to some colo. To the home. Sure, it's not available in many places, but that's quite something. That is someone, at home, having a personal pipe wider than what cloud instances do provide to most. Heck, my brother, a poweruser (not a dev), just assembled a 7950X / 64 GB of RAM with a 4090 GPU. I think many, used to their laptops, don't realize how powerful such machines are (laptops aren't exactly known for running 4090). It's honestly a bit insane to me that several devs have, at home, wider pipes and faster machines than what their apps are going to be deployed on. I'm "only" at 2 Gbps FTTH and don't have a particularly fast machine (just ordered a 7700X / 32 GB of RAM / WD SN850X Black as suggested by someone else here yesterday) but even that is sufficient to make me question a huge lot of cloud instances offerings.