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by btmcnellis 1495 days ago
> Eventually you outgrow the cloud provider and go into a data center. By that point you’re talking number of racks vs VMs.

How many companies actually hit this stage? I can only think of a few, and usually it's because they have very specific hardware requirements (e.g. Dropbox's whole business is file storage, or if you're doing something that requires tons of GPUs).
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krageon 1494 days ago
> How many companies actually hit this stage?

In practical terms you should expect to never hit it. The point where such scaling (also the main value add of aws/azure) really matters and you start looking at an entire DC to lease, you've arrived in the realm of speculative fiction. You should not plan to get there, just as you should not plan to get a winning lottery ticket.

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f1gm3nt 1494 days ago
Rarely companies hit this. I’ve done work in a few startups and we never hit that point.

Also, it’s about priorities and goals of the company. Security and control is the main reasons I see companies migrate to data centers. Generally things like GitHub Enterprise are being used.

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