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slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe dot-com boom
In fairness I was in school for those so I have no experience in them. While I was in the workforce for the others.
I am curious what advantages the cloud offers that a colo in a DC with proper planning can’t.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The advantage is you don’t need to plan and provision your own infrastructure in a DC because the vendor handles it.
That flexibility is worth serious money.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Personally I don’t call that an advantage. Paying 3-5x times in monthly fees over the course of 5 years just so someone else can lifecycle the hardware. That doesn’t even include the performance hit from using shared infrastructure compared to dedicated infrastructure.
Look at 37Signals saving $7 million over 5 years after leaving AWS.