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2026: the year of your own metal in a rack
by ape4 11mo ago
2026: the year of your own metal in a rack
- drewnick 11mo agoI've been doing it since 1998 in my bedroom with a dual T1 (and on to real DCs later). While I've had some outages for sure it makes me feel better I am not that divergent in uptime in the long run vs big clouds.
- Aperocky 11mo agoI'd predict the year of linux desktop instead.
- hshdhdhehd 11mo agoAt least YOLD is possible. Is there capacity in the world for everyone to ditch clouds.
- 0xbadcafebee 11mo ago2027: the year of migrating from your own metal to a managed provider 2028: the year of migrating from a managed provider to the cloud 2029: the year of migrating from the cloud to your own metal in a rack People keep thinking the solution to their problems is to do something new (that they don't fully understand). TIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy
- reaperducer 11mo agoTIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy We used to call it "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
- hshdhdhehd 11mo agoThe upside of keep moving it acts as a hardener and chaos monkey. You shake out any crufty service no one knows how to build let alone deploy.
- OhioMan2943 11mo agoJust experienced this with moving around multiple states and universities in the past year :) Grass really was greener in my hometown