[toomuchtodo]

When you need performance, bare metal is always the way to go.

[matt_wulfeck]

This saying holds such little value for so many engineers. They want uptime, ease of management, and security.

Most people aren't worried about squeezing another 3% performance out of thei servers. In fact I would say the slice-and-dice nature of VMs allows for better overall capacity usage because of over provisioning of resources. How many apps do you know that hover at 0.07 load all day long?

[toomuchtodo]

Okay, how's this:

"If you're willing to pay up to a 40% premium for the features cloud providers provide, pay them. If not, go bare metal."

[matt_wulfeck]

Fair enough.