I wrote an orchestrator from scratch in the pre-K8S days, and even factoring in the opportunity cost of that colo and eventually Hetzner was far cheaper than cl

I wrote an orchestrator from scratch in the pre-K8S days, and even factoring in the opportunity cost of that colo and eventually Hetzner was far cheaper than cloud, to the point where - and we costed this out yearly - the company wouldn't have survived a year if we had to pay AWS level prices for infrastructure. Cloud is great for many things, but not cutting cost.