5 ms·
Show HN: Interesting companies that are running on-prem
- rco8786 3y agoI feel like including Digital Ocean is not quite in the spirit of the list lol. AWS is "on-prem" also, then.
- dilyevsky 3y agoAlso Level3
- vira28 3y agoLevel3 is not there on the list.
- quickthrower2 3y agoThe cloud is someone else’s prem
- raghavtoshniwal 3y agoDoesn't twitter have its own datacenters too? But they also use GCP, not sure how they split the load
- moulin_splooge 3y agoIt was my understanding that they are trying to take things in house but that they currently rely heavily on GCP.
- anagri 3y agoEach company have different motivations. For e.g. Basecamp moved to save cost. Working in Enterprise, I can share hybrid model works best for multinational. If they are going into new geography, where local laws restrict data transfer across national boundaries, having a cloud provider with local data centers is the easiest and quickest way to launch.
- rewmie 3y agoMentioning Digital Ocean and Cloudflare as on-prem companies makes as much sense as listing AWS and Google. Digital Ocean is one of the world's top ten largest cloud providers and Cloudflare is one of the world's largest CDNs.
- ctenb 3y agoDepends on what you find interesting, but almost all banks and insurance companies run their own data center. Often multiple, for redundancy reasons
- KomoD 3y agoDoes Wikimedia count? They're a non-profit but on-prem
- vira28 3y agoI think so. It isn't about $$ that they are making. More of smaller/less obvious companies that take this path. If you have a reference, please submit a PR.
- moulin_splooge 3y agoI opened a PR adding Automattic to the list. They run WordPress.com and Tumblr and all their infrastructure is in 30 private datacenters across 6 continents.
- vira28 3y agoThanks for your contribution. Always interesting to learn about such companies.