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Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

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Re: Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

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Hetzner is a cloud, as per their own literature but my point being if you buy Hetzner you’re not getting a complete platform. You are buying into a platform just less of one. Hetzner also advertises themselves as thrifty, not exactly instilling confidence for critical infrastructures. My point remains though, buying a VPS is equivalent to an EC2 and this is not how things are built these days. Also note the posters n…

VPS is in no way equivalent to an EC2

Sure it is, for almost every use case. For edge cases, it’s not exactly equivalent sure. If you just need a place to run code then it most definitely is.

Re: Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

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I work for a US Stock Exchange, and some of the technologies that we rely on are not permitted in the cloud. The performance metrics we need are usually only achievable on highly tuned bare metal deployments as well so cloud is usually not an option. I guess it really depends on your workload, but I think there is a very healthy amount of production being deployed and worked on businesses own datacenter/private clouds.
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