Why would you be wasting money and going into the cloud? The cloud is not appropriate for small time users, it will always be cheaper to go with dedi or semi-dedi and building the infrastructure you need.

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saagarjha 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The cloud is perfectly appropriate for a lot of usecases. To be honest, it seems like you are really bad at making decisions for organizations (but really good at being a commenter on Hacker News!)

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DiabloD3 2 days ago | parent [-]

Funny, but no. I've merely watched smaller companies evaporate because they fell for the cloud trap. Wish I could have helped them, but they were very gung-ho on the cloud being the future. Many I've discovered because of their goodbye message got linked here on HN, they imploded not because they failed to launch or failed to find a following, but they failed to overcome AWS eating all their profits.

	▲	saagarjha 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but plenty of companies are also successful using cloud services.

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nope1000 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm actually thinking the opposite. If you are a small company, the cloud makes sense and once you grow big it makes sense to build your own infra. For example my company of 10 people, we do B2B SaaS and we couldn't do that if we hosted ourselves. We would need people with the skill to set something like this up, develop physical security concepts, backup duplication, disaster recovery, etc. We would spend more time working on the infra than on the actual product we are selling.