• piefood@feddit.online
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    2 days ago

    I will never understand why businesses want to let someone else control their infrastructure. Putting your money-maker in someone else’s hands is just telling them that it’s OK to give you the squeeze later.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      Someone else controls your infra no matter what. Say you’ve got a data center, you run all your applications on site. Great, until your ISP or electrical or DNS provider or registrar fuck you.

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      We moved out entire stack to the cloud, knowing full well we’re gonna bring it back in the future. We hosted our apps on traditional servers and server maintenance was a nightmare, we didn’t have the capacity and our application uptime is critical to our operations, so we strategically moved everything to the cloud so we can not worry about the maintenance for a bit while we took the time to rebuild our infrastructure properly with load balancing and high availability, and refactored our applications, we’re now slowly moving things back.

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      In many cases, I’d say it’s because they aren’t IT or IT Security focused businesses. A pizza shop, clothing retailer, or whatnot, needs IT stuff to function, but that’s not the focus of their business. Hiring an IT team at IT worker rates is expensive, especially as a support/tertiary role for your business.

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      2 days ago

      Because managers really like giving contracts to those giving a presentation in an exotic resort and have a great service agreement so all blame for mishaps can be shifted away from their career.

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        Also, at least in here, lease costs (like all as-a-service things) are considered to be flexible while own hardware and specially workforce are static costs. And no one wants to increase static costs, even if it’s clear as daylight that flexible cost only flexes upward over time unless the company suddenly shrinks by quite a lot.