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0 pointsarchy_6y ago0 comments

Cloud should be a backup, a failover, but people build their entire business on other people's hardware because they can sell the cost per hour easier than the price of a new server which is cheaper in the long run. At this point, with so many outages showing the need for self-hosting, not allowing customers to do so shows how little you care about them.

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dragonwriter6y ago

> At this point, with so many outages showing the need for self-hosting,

Are they really showing that? None of the major cloud providers, even constrained to a single region (or even AZ) seems on average less reliable than the on prem datacenters I've seen, and there's

> not allowing customers to do so shows how little you care about them.

While the solutions may not be as complete for all use cases as public-cloud-only ones, are any of the major cloud providers not working to enable and selling their capacity to support hybrid-cloud deployments?

KirinDave6y ago

The challenge of self hosting is then you don't get the sophisticated load balancing the CSPs like my employer, Microsoft and Amazon offer. You also don't get the dedicated networks.

But it's true, it's much cheaper if you can find a way to replicate those or do without.

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