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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by arp242 on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:43AM (#34676507)
The core business for Sprocket Masters isn't really tech stuff: it's making sprockets. For those kind of businesses it makes a lot of sense; the tech stuff is required, but only in the sane sense that a phone line or electricity is.

However, what I also see – and what I think the previous poster was talking about – are businesses where tech is at the core of the business, and there it often makes less sense, and instead of saving time it seems to cost time. There's a reason there are AWS experts: it's not trivial. "Real" servers also aren't trivial, but also not necessarily harder than cloud services.

Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by justeleblanc on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:19AM (#34677577)
"Tech" isn't a thing. If I ran a company that produced CAD software, I would work in "tech", but I would have no reason to believe that my competency in writing CAD software should translate to competency in maintaining web servers or network infrastructure.