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		phil21 on Oct 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Frightful Five Put Startups in a Lose-Lose... > Nothing stops you buying your own hardware and racking it. If you're a bootstrapped startup, sure. I think you'll find it a rather hard sell to tell your VC-backed board that you are hosting somewhere other than AWS or GCE these days. It's an extremely concerning trend for anyone paying attention. Mandated-by-investor vendor lock-in before you even deploy a line of code.

Bartweiss on Oct 20, 2017 | [–]

I don't expect anyone will actually be racking their own hardware, but "AWS or CGE only" still sounds pretty narrow to me. Are VCs really going to object to Oracle's bare metal setup, or RackSpace with OpenStack?

peoplewindow on Oct 21, 2017 | [–]

Why would your board care where you host your servers?

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