alt Hacker NewsSo in summary:
- own the hardware, if you have constant load and have enough expertise (personally or a team) to use/maintain it at your required reliability level
- rent the cloud, if your usage is opportunistic/ spike’y/rapidly changing
- also rent the cloud, if required expertise/maintenance would cost you more than the hardware (if you want to have gazillion of nines, you need somebody who’s there to deal with smoking stuff, in several locations)
That sounds like good common sense, though I'd reword the "constant" with like <30% occupancy because cloud premiums are rather large
My question was (to what ozim wrote), how's that new in 2026