[0xB31B1B]

The issue is that the 3x cost doesn’t include the cost to staff the team that runs your in-house platform software on your colo setup, and the mixed incentives you get when a sizable part of your team is not shipping product but instead shipping say, Kafka queues. My previous employer has one of the largest colo deployments of the f500 companies and it was a mess technically and organizationally. At the end a few hundred infra devs were laid off and projects scrapped after ~24 months of no visible progress on platform stability and support.

[kaetemi]

Rented dedicated feels like a nice middle ground between colo or on-site and cloud hosted. It's on the cheaper end. And if you can boot into a self-configuring image, maintenance cost is quite low too.