Yeah. My dad had told me more than one horror story of early tech startups buying truckloads of hardware to scale way beyond demand growth. And I remember when getting on Slashdot meant your service would inevitably go down.
Of course, given stable demand and known requirements, bare metal can be a great option. But it’s not strictly better than public cloud hosting.
I think it’s just been long enough that people have forgotten the limitations of bare metal engineering.
Of course, given stable demand and known requirements, bare metal can be a great option. But it’s not strictly better than public cloud hosting.
I think it’s just been long enough that people have forgotten the limitations of bare metal engineering.