That seems to be a common take on HN - cloud is too expensive.
I'm curious whether the folks claiming that have any data center ops experience.
Because, personally, I'd rather retire than deal with Dell, HP, Cisco, fibers, cooling issues, physical security, hardware failling... And that's just the hardware. Then you still need to pay VMWare for a decent virtualization platform, monitoring tools, etc.... Seriously, no amount of money would make me work in a DC again.
I believe companies selling bare metal as a service are a happy compromise of cost and convenience, though.
I'm curious whether the folks claiming that have any data center ops experience.
Because, personally, I'd rather retire than deal with Dell, HP, Cisco, fibers, cooling issues, physical security, hardware failling... And that's just the hardware. Then you still need to pay VMWare for a decent virtualization platform, monitoring tools, etc.... Seriously, no amount of money would make me work in a DC again.
I believe companies selling bare metal as a service are a happy compromise of cost and convenience, though.