[sauere]

Got to agree. Bare Metal performance isn't appreciated enough. I know a few companies that run fine with a mixed Metal/AWS combo. Metal handles 80% of the workload, and if that for some reason fails, EC2 instances are fired up to take over until it is fixed. This setup doesn't work for every scenario, but it is something to take into consideration.

[ckluis]

I remember being in a meeting talking about the tax companies using X-Metal servers for the whole year and scaling Y-cloud instances for the 3 months they have excessive usage.