[grepfru_it]

Everyone says this but very few know the true costs of keeping a private datacenter. Everyone looks at the aws final number and says oof that’s too high. Then ignore things like the 10 year old code base that is still being developed, causing outages and support requests that is not included in the on-prem cost.

When I did work for a var that was selling on-prem accounting software, that number was closer to a 20% difference in cost. Now add in large corporations discount for buying large amounts of compute and it suddenly becomes very palatable to use the cloud.

Small companies still benefit the most from on-prem.

[throw156754228]

Who said I want my own data centre if I don't want to use AWS/GCP/Azure?

[grepfru_it]

At that scale it is cheaper. If you have a requirement for only a few dozen, then webhostingtalk is all you need. When you need 100k servers, you will be managing the hardware yourself