Totally agree. Of course there are savings in monthly costs and perhaps a lot of learning on the way (the first time) but two factors are being missed here: cost of your time spent on this, and second, what I’ve been calling Day-2 costs: backups, disaster recovery, scaling, etc. what to do when a hard drive fails (they do, believe me!)
Sometimes I wonder if people underestimated the effort and hours that go to get many of these functionalities to work in whatever cloud platform they are in. And then test them or fix issues when there is some unexpected thing there...
No they do but the amount of work that’s required is much less most of the time. You can always define the problem in such a way that there is no difference between a cloud and non-cloud solution but 12 years being in the business of deploying to cloud and non-cloud, the types of issues I’ve seen are almost always easier to get around on the cloud
It's really not. It takes about the same amount of time to add an rsync job to my crontab as it does to click through the backup scheduling options in the Linode control panel.
A lot of people here have fallen for the cloud marketing efforts. Nobody is saving any time.
