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Our company is literally in the 3rd week of waiting for a colo to install some new RAM modules in a server. Before that we were waiting two weeks to get a new server ordered, delivered and racked. Before that we had to wait a week for them to tell us if there was available power and network ports for the new server. That server is the main database. And yes, there is a backup server, but for reasons, the backup server isn't working as expected. So if that main server's RAM failed for good, there goes our product, for god knows how long, considering how long it's taken so far to get a second one set up. You don't have to deal with any of that shit in the cloud. None. You just spin up a new server in 2 seconds. You don't deal with shitty hardware, or the differences between old and new hardware (besides cpu arch, and some special classes), or incompatibilities, or running out of space, or getting smart hands in your rack, or a million other things. And that's just the hardware side. The software side of the cloud is the one million unique hosted services they offer that you can just start using immediately. No server set-up, no configuration management, it already has security baked in, it's already integrated with the other million services, etc. You just start using it, immediately, and it just works. It saves you time, complexity, maintenance, and it gives you reliability, compatibility, flexibility, and allows you to ship something earlier. I have managed servers on-prem for years, for tiny startups and huge companies. Both two decades ago, and two years ago. Without a doubt, I would always suggest any kind of hosted, cloud-style vendor over on-prem. Only somebody needs to be on-prem, or they literally are a teenager with no money at all and all the time in the world to waste DIYing, then I would tell them to go on-prem. |