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by Nextgrid 807 days ago
> it's not like you're going to realize equivalent margins by running your own little server in a colo somewhere

There are a lot of projects where the bandwidth charges alone would make self-managed on-prem come out ahead, and I'm not even talking the instant 2-3x performance boost you get by moving to real hardware instead of overprovisioned cloud VM hosts.