[selectively]

Idiotic piece - the purpose of 'the cloud' is to scale large demand applications. Rental hardware can't really do that.

[pmontra]

The post is about that 99% of companies that will never go large scale. Its point is that they don't need cloud, buying a server or two is all they need.

[kryptiskt]

I once worked at a bookmaker with millions of customers where they had extreme reliability demands during very popular events, since any bets that the punters couldn't place during live betting was lost money. They had one massive server with a big pipe and an identical hot spare in another location. It worked very well for them. That was a decade ago, you can get even bigger servers these days, there's a lot of room for scaling without needing to go beyond one machine.

[stevage]

An argument which begins by reducing an entire industry down to a single "purpose" is not convincing.

[kelnos]

The vast majority of businesses are not "large demand applications".

> Idiotic piece

That's unnecessary; please don't do that here. Weird that you created an account just to post an unsubstantive comment.

[gitaarik]

You can automate scaling rental hardware too