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by rubber_duck 3547 days ago
Like someone else said, your VM can die as well, the cloud provides some HA services but there are hosted/standalone versions as well. I think the real question is how spiky is your usage, even with renting bare metal you still can't scale dynamically like you can with cloud VM - if you need 5x the capacity to cover spikes you might as well use cloud and all the fancy stuff you get with it.

And you can use both at the same time (dynamically scale up through cloud, bare metal predictable workloads)