> The cost of a server isn't just the hourly/monthly fee for running it. It's also the cost of waking up at 3am to turn it back on. If you're managing your own bare metal then you have to deal with that one yourself and I can assure you it's never cheaper than the cloud unless you value your time at $0.
You have to deal with outages when using cloud providers too. So you design for availability in either case, and pay someone to wake up at 3am when there's an actual emergency.
We're the ones taking the calls if our customers systems goes down at 3am, and it eats into my profits if it happens because they pay us monthly fees that are structured so they're far more profitable for us if nothing goes wrong.
Guess what's most profitable for me? Bare metal setups. Despite the fact that we end up charging my customers less to manage them, because it's harder to justify high fees when the overall costs are so much lower.
> Sure you can save some money by running a server yourself but if your business it as the point where that's the deciding factor in being solvent than you might as well close shop.
I had a client last year where we cut the hosting costs including the hourly rates for operational tasks by 90% by moving them off AWS.
While they were on AWS their hosting fees made up ~30% of their burn rate. It's an extreme example, but there are a lot of companies out there for whom hosting makes up a sufficient portion of their cost that it is a matter of survival for them to cut them.
You have to deal with outages when using cloud providers too. So you design for availability in either case, and pay someone to wake up at 3am when there's an actual emergency.
We're the ones taking the calls if our customers systems goes down at 3am, and it eats into my profits if it happens because they pay us monthly fees that are structured so they're far more profitable for us if nothing goes wrong.
Guess what's most profitable for me? Bare metal setups. Despite the fact that we end up charging my customers less to manage them, because it's harder to justify high fees when the overall costs are so much lower.
> Sure you can save some money by running a server yourself but if your business it as the point where that's the deciding factor in being solvent than you might as well close shop.
I had a client last year where we cut the hosting costs including the hourly rates for operational tasks by 90% by moving them off AWS.
While they were on AWS their hosting fees made up ~30% of their burn rate. It's an extreme example, but there are a lot of companies out there for whom hosting makes up a sufficient portion of their cost that it is a matter of survival for them to cut them.