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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by ATsch on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:55AM (#23101969)
You wouldn't run your own datacenter, you would colocate. Even if that's not possible, you can still rent servers for significantly cheaper than cloud offerings.
Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by Accujack on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:31AM (#23102207)
Wow... really a first world perspective here.
Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by blaser-waffle on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:56AM (#23102999)
The you co-locate to the first world. Or somewhere that can get a data center built with resources that you trust.

I ran data centers for a living in Northern VA and had all sorts of international clients. Egyptian schools who rented servers, Brazilian Protestant ministries who shipped servers to us, etc. There were some decent data centers in Mumbai we had to get VPNs built for, and we had a least one legit client in Lagos, Nigeria.

Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by iajrz on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:26AM (#23103315)
3rd world perspective: They're not far off from the mark.

You'd want to co-locate with ISP who already has infrastructure for continuous services through blackouts et al, or you could have a datacenter if it's small-ish, because you already have some infrastructure to keep operating during blackouts.

Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by troupe on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:50AM (#23102360)
I believe you are saying that some countries don't have data centers where you can co-locate. Most of the places where AWS has a datacenter have other datacenter companies that offer co-location.
Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by ATsch on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:57AM (#23103718)
I think you'll struggle to find any place without a few datacenters nearby, at least in a neighboring country. Of course it's going to be a bit further away if you're in central Africa.

Even then, you can colocate in a datacenter anywhere you want, have equipment delivered there and pay remote hands to install it for you for a very reasonable fee.

Of course this doesn't make sense if you just want a small webserver, but that's not who we are talking about here.

Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by kuschku on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:53AM (#23102390)
If you can rent an AWS server, you can also rent a Hetzner server, or put some servers in a Hetzner DC.
Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by irishcoffee on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:17AM (#23103222)
Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by Hnrobert42 on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:53AM (#23111514)
I support your comment.