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Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by acdha on Sunday April 09, 2017 @09:55AM (#14072275)
One: run the numbers on the dozens of cloud nodes you mentioned. Is that really cheaper than renting some servers in a colo?

Second: how much time would they have spent rolling all of the data integrity, reporting, etc. features they'd have needed to add. I'm inclined to take them at their word when they say this was safer and cheaper given their resources.

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Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by nemothekid on Monday April 10, 2017 @03:41AM (#14076721)
>I'm inclined to take them at their word when they say this was safer and cheaper given their resources.

I never meant to claim that cloud was safer and cheaper. What I meant was, for the majority of operations, staying in the cloud with some distributed setup is likely more feasible that moving to CoLo (see GitLab).

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