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All good questions. The answer is pretty long winded. In short, we love our bare metal and you are not going to be able to rip it out of our cold dead hands. It is stable, fast and…

We use other cloud services as well. Rackspace and Nimbix are a couple of them. We even looked at Azure figuring no contention for boxes but we don't have any MSFT in our stack (so…

Yes! 95% of our services were running at AWS. Paying AWS for running our website is not a good use of money. Many cheaper ways to host a website. Paying for 70-100 hours of compute…

To be clear, we haven't dumped AWS for short running stateless processing. We dynamically spin up spot instances as needed for all our stateless processing using AWS and other clou…