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Regardless of your opinion on Musk, I can assure you owning your own hardware is worth it. I still don't think the dot-com boom craze of owning your entire dat
by exabrial 3y ago
Regardless of your opinion on Musk, I can assure you owning your own hardware is worth it.
I still don't think the dot-com boom craze of owning your entire datacenter is a good investment, unless you rent out your excess space and fill it to the top.
Colocation is, however, dirt cheap compared to cloud bills.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoUnless you need that burstable capacity. Company I worked for got a 90 minutes heads up that our client bought a Super Bowl ad. We needed to spin up as many instances as possible. The next day, they were gone. Since then, I've been convinced that there is a use case for the cloud for customer facing businesses that have irregular levels of demand.
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- hotpotamus 3y agoBurstable loads are the slam-dunk use case for cloud, but I'm highly skeptical of most others.
- exabrial 3y agoTotally agree. That is literally the _only_ acceptable use for in fact. So the other 364 days... hybrid cloud