[spyke112]

Yes, I’ve been freelancing for a company making a couple of billions in revenue here in Denmark, where basically the most critical infrastructure is running on maybe 2-4 windows boxes with a big mssql database backing it. They are serving a lot of daily transactions because they among other things primarily sells gas.

[ASalazarMX]

On-premises simplifies everything, from backups to response time. The only big advantage of the cloud is scaling on-demand, and managed applications like dedicated Wordpress instances. For stable, general-purpose computing workloads, on-premises rules.

[spyke112]

This case is also extremely simplified by the fact that the customer only serves users nationally in Denmark. They even got away with running their own fully redundant DC in the basement, and i suspect even with really great latency to customers, compared with running of servers in Germany for instance.