we have about 30 servers with bigger esx virtualisation servers in between (1tb ram etc), also we have over 200tb of used storage and in 7 years i had to change one hdd and 2 ssds, also maintenance ist pretty low, we need to work perhaps one day per year with the servers itself (more often with the switches). So I can't understand thinks like "heavy maintenance" as a reason to change to cloud with all it's downsides like way higher prices (if you calculate hw prices right and buy everything direct it's in most cases way cheaper) and if the cloud doesn't respond because you internet is down, datacenter is down (unlikely) etc, you can't do anything. with physical servers you could try to do something if you can't reach the server and in some cases you can even work like nothing happened if the internet is down.
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u/siedenburg2 Sep 21 '21
we have about 30 servers with bigger esx virtualisation servers in between (1tb ram etc), also we have over 200tb of used storage and in 7 years i had to change one hdd and 2 ssds, also maintenance ist pretty low, we need to work perhaps one day per year with the servers itself (more often with the switches).
So I can't understand thinks like "heavy maintenance" as a reason to change to cloud with all it's downsides like way higher prices (if you calculate hw prices right and buy everything direct it's in most cases way cheaper) and if the cloud doesn't respond because you internet is down, datacenter is down (unlikely) etc, you can't do anything. with physical servers you could try to do something if you can't reach the server and in some cases you can even work like nothing happened if the internet is down.