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Yeah, I don't get these articles (with this one being pretty similar in tone to the 'Hetzner is 4x cheaper than AWS' one I saw on here earlier today). If all y

Yeah, I don't get these articles (with this one being pretty similar in tone to the 'Hetzner is 4x cheaper than AWS' one I saw on here earlier today). If all you need is simple compute and bandwidth, and you can spare the resources to admin a server, of course you'll be able to find colocated, dedicated-server or even VPS solutions that fit your requirements and are way cheaper than AWS/Azure/GCS/etc. The whole selling point of 'cloud' is that you can scale infinitely at a moment's notice and have a whole array of batteries-included services at your disposal. Don't need that? Don't do it, even if it's fashionable...

RajT88 2y ago
It's a worthwhile reality check for business decision makers, I think. I've seen products developed with such small teams, there's no way you'd ever be able to be that nimble on-prem. I've also seen cloud spend and governance spin wildly out of control, because teams knew they had to get to the cloud, but weren't sure why. Similarly - there's value in the articles like "Actually, monoliths are fine". Adopt the practices which fit your business requirements the best.