In that context, does it not make more sense to rent the infrastructure instead of host in-house? Or, use commodity hardware that does not have all the redundancy and resiliency baked in at the hardware level - after all, it's completely unnecessary for short-lived services.
We have solutions for these scenarios already - VM's, Serverless, Containers, etc. I am having a really difficult time understanding the scenario where someone must use a "proper" server with all the long-runtime, redundant, resilient hardware configuration but needs it to turn on and off quickly.
Round hole, square peg. There are much better solutions available, starting with commodity hardware and ending with "the cloud".
> In that context, does it not make more sense to rent the infrastructure instead of host in-house?
Yes, but it also makes sense to be able to rent it for short periods of time, billing by the second. And sometimes you do need bare-metal, and a VM won't do.
We have solutions for these scenarios already - VM's, Serverless, Containers, etc. I am having a really difficult time understanding the scenario where someone must use a "proper" server with all the long-runtime, redundant, resilient hardware configuration but needs it to turn on and off quickly.
Round hole, square peg. There are much better solutions available, starting with commodity hardware and ending with "the cloud".