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by alberth 1682 days ago
Why not then lease dedicated servers from a hosting provider?

You still get ridiculous cost savings over cloud, and none of the long lead times you mention when buying your own hardware.

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Like, why do you have to do one or the other? Why not use a little of both?

For example, we knew the limit of our big fatty pipe coming into our building. 99% of the time, we could handle all the traffic coming in. The other 1% of the time, we just offloaded the extra traffic to AWS. All the cost savings of on-prem, all the scale benefits of the cloud.