Nope. Local hosted servers are common af around here. It'd just all nucs now instead of chunky boi hp workstations. Need backup of your data? Couple of nucs wi

Nope. Local hosted servers are common af around here. It'd just all nucs now instead of chunky boi hp workstations. Need backup of your data? Couple of nucs with external hdds. One at site, one at business owners home. Way cheaper than ongoing cloud costs for a few tb. And business owners like one off costs not ongoing overheads. One off cost is a easy asset write off they think about once not an ongoing monthly fee that jacks up their baseline and can change at anytime. No service provider lockin, data storage is mostly dumb compute, so set and forget. You might not consider it best practice...but it is the way amongst smbs. Why pay a monthly fee to some msp who stings you out the wazoo when you can slap down a single setup fee for 1/5th their annual cost if a msp were to do it? The same is starting to happen to local llms. Company of 50 people? You wanna drop a grand a month on openai(12k a year?) Have no control of ya data and not be able to train on local files? Or drop 4k to 6k on a machine and 2k on a tech to come and do some maintenance quarterly? Clouds cool if you don't mind throwing money in the bin but it's overpriced for alotta smbs. Turns out your one warehouse and office doesn't need multiple high availability clusters scattered across the country...it just needs 3,2 1 backup.