[tferris]

I totally agree, this new machine is so fricking responsive that I still think bare metal rules but I am just so afraid of the system operations of such a machine. But maybe Paul can give us some hints and why it's still worth to go the bare metal route.

EDIT: since Heroku fooled Rapgenius and us all it would be one more reason to get into system operations again and host on bare metal.

[voidlogic]

Many people use baremetal for their base-load and virtual/cloud instances for their fail-over and elastic loads. Its not all or nothing.