Subj : Re: Proxmox 8 is out...
To   : niter3
From : tassiebob
Date : Sat Jul 08 2023 14:44:06

 ni>  ta> I dislike cloud virtual machines, but I get why companies do it.  I ha
 ni> 
 ni> Do you, because it seems if you run a 5 year forecast seems quite more
 ni> expensive then keeping it local if datacenters are available, which in
 ni> our case they are.

I believe you're right, but I've yet to work at a company where they've actually done a proper analysis of the costs.  Seems they just look at the
headline bullet points and don't dig much deeper.  Once the first few things are in the cloud it becomes easier to just drop all the new things there too. 
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the cloud sounded great for elastic capacity so you can scale up/down as your peak load increases.  I don't think it's a great solution for the "base load".

 ni> I don't know, being a former server admin, I do hate to see it go to the
 ni> cloud.

It's increasingly common in networking too - let's just buy a virtual network from someone else than build your own - be that a multi-site office VPN, or a full on white-label service provider solution.

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