[re-thc]

> You don't have to deal with buying, maintaining, or replacing hardware.

You can rent servers much the same once you at least have a bit of scale. It's never colocation or cloud. There are lots of in-betweens.

[magikstm]

Exactly.

Cloud is often viewed as if these don't exist: - Dedicated servers - Managed hosting - VPS - etc.

Most small to medium-sized enterprise could opt for such options instead of the cloud.