Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem...
by theshrike79 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:08PM
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The premise was that one doesn’t already have a half a million dollar on-prem setup…
Like a bootstrapped one or two person startup. Or could I borrow your globally distributed home lab? =)
The difference here is that I can pay AWS by the hour (or even by the minute or second). I can’t hire a sysadmin like that.
I can try a few high GPU instances for 6 hours and shut them down. But if I need to buy 6 4090’s and the hardware to run them, I’m stuck with the choice and down a few tens of thousands.
Hey I can do that too in our on-prem environment because it's well managed. Hell, I can do that in my fricken homelab if you'll accept postgress.
Cloud is neat and the major vendors know how to manage it. That doesn't mean you need to pay them to use a well managed platform, but you do need to pay _somebody_.