Do they? Could be my bubble, but I’m hearing stories how moving away from clouds to bare metal dramatically lowered costs, even accounting for having to hire some sysadmins who know how to deal with this stuff.
And those who aren’t that brave are still fed up with cloud nonsense and are rebuilding cloud stuff themselves (like setting up replacements for insanely overpriced AWS NAT Gateway.)
Clouds were definitely the way to go just a few years ago - and still are, but I believe folks are more and more wary of their drawbacks. And they understand they’re not Google so they don’t really need all those insanely complex but highly scalable solutions for their stuff.
Could be just my bubble, though. I’m most definitely biased here.
Yes, this also happens, the second scenario I've mentioned.
But I've heard about moving away from virtual servers specifically, or only using those for the highly elastic parts when the load fluctuates a lot. Bare metal is simply so much cheaper in the long run, if you know how to work with it. Yes, it's rigid in terms of provisioning, but it's the baseline (all clouds and VPSes have bare metal underneath) so it gives the best bang for the buck.
Do they? Could be my bubble, but I’m hearing stories how moving away from clouds to bare metal dramatically lowered costs, even accounting for having to hire some sysadmins who know how to deal with this stuff.
And those who aren’t that brave are still fed up with cloud nonsense and are rebuilding cloud stuff themselves (like setting up replacements for insanely overpriced AWS NAT Gateway.)
Clouds were definitely the way to go just a few years ago - and still are, but I believe folks are more and more wary of their drawbacks. And they understand they’re not Google so they don’t really need all those insanely complex but highly scalable solutions for their stuff.
Could be just my bubble, though. I’m most definitely biased here.