> The whole push to the cloud has always fascinated me. I get it - most people aren't interested in babysitting their own hardware.
For businesses, it's a very typical lease-or-own decision. There's really nothing too special about cloud.
> On the other hand, a business of just about any size that has any reasonable amount of hosting is better off with their own systems when it comes purely to cost.
Nope. Not if you factor-in 24/7 support, geographic redundancy, and uptime guarantees. With EC2 you can break even at about $2-5m a year of cloud spending if you want your own hardware.
For businesses, it's a very typical lease-or-own decision. There's really nothing too special about cloud.
> On the other hand, a business of just about any size that has any reasonable amount of hosting is better off with their own systems when it comes purely to cost.
Nope. Not if you factor-in 24/7 support, geographic redundancy, and uptime guarantees. With EC2 you can break even at about $2-5m a year of cloud spending if you want your own hardware.