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by matwood 1438 days ago
> totally ignoring the opex cost of operating your own hardware which is going to be non 0

Early in my career I worked at a company and we had a DC onsite. I remember the months long project to spec, purchase and migrate to a new, more powerful DB server. How much that costed in people-hours, I have no idea. I upgraded to a better DB a couple months ago by clicking a button...

Don't even get me started with ordering more SANs when we ran out of storage or the time a hurricane was coming and we had to prepare to fail over to another DC.