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0 pointsbjoerns9y ago0 comments

That's a very good point - but for what we do (on-premise version control for Excel where each workbook version represents one object) we won't be getting even close to that number. But yes, agreed, it entirely depends on your use case.

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matt_wulfeck9y ago

If you don't mind me asking, why not use Amazon S3? It's cheap and -- importantly -- somebody else is on-call for its uptime.

bjoernsOP9y ago

We use S3 for our hosted version - but for our on-premise offering it simply has to be 100% on-premise, entirely on our client's infrastructure.

abakker9y ago

I'm going to guess that it is part of the "on premises superstition" where companies feel that the stuff they own is more secure somehow. Obviously, this is not often true in practice, but 5 years of research/consulting has taught me that they feel this way all the same.

Occasionally, there are laws that also mandate certain controls that cloud providers in general did not have. That is also becoming rarer as time goes on.

brianwawok9y ago

There really are pros to on prem.

There are cons, don't get me wrong, but to somehow claim that AWS is the end all be all of hosting choices is demonstrably wrong.

For example - You want to develop a financial exchange with a 100 microsecond average response time, peaks of 10Gbit traffic, and 5 9s of uptime. Do you host that on AWS? I wouldn't.

Another example - If I were a medium+ sized company (say 20+ employees), I would want my source control 100% on prem (excluding backup). Internet connections are too flakey, and Github gets DDOSed too often. I could not stake my entire business on github.

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vacri9y ago

On-Premises is also "one less third-party service to manage". I work for a small company, and was asked to list the external services we use a couple of days ago, and the list went into dozens.

It's not the primary reason for On Premises, but it's one less thing to worry about: "our tech team has full control, instead of yet another company having some control that we can't see"

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