Where are the numbers and how do they calculate them? This article lists their cloud spend in detail then "waves hands" at the Datacenter costs by say "it will be far far less". Ok why not break it down?

I’ve done the modeling down to pulling actual quotes in my area and with a decent footprint (like couple hundred xxlarge instances) you break even after a year (including colo, remote hands and networking). Cost is decisively not the reason most orgs choose public cloud

Here's their article. "We stand to save $7m over five years from cloud exit."

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...

>But this isn't just about cost. It's also about what kind of internet we want to operate in the future. It strikes me as downright tragic that this decentralized wonder of the world is now largely operating on computers owned by a handful of mega corporations.

Yep read that guys blog history and the agenda just pops right out. It's not just about cost for Basecamp its ideological. I can't help but imagine this bias leaks into the financial and operational calculations.

We had a similar situation. We had a team did not want to move to the cloud, the business forced them, so they built the system in a way that fought the cloud. Then the self fulfilling prophecy kicked into high gear. "See we told you it was a bad idea, look at all the problems we have!". The problems were created through half baked attempts to be "agnostic" to the cloud. Once we removed those elements we were able to reduce the cost of the system by over 90%. It was far cheaper than when it was running in the Colo. These folks had no interest in optimizing for cloud native execution they were already planning their move back into the Colo.