Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7M cloud spending

So you would expect the current trend to be to IN to cloud, right? Unless you're sitting on talent to turn data centers into gold (which, you're probably not, maybe DHH is, I do feel there's some risk DHH is overestimating his co-workers long term hardware support enthusiasm, I guess we will find out over the next few years?).

If you're at the point where exiting cloud makes sense for you - that's cool and not unthinkable, depends what you're doing, and at what scale. Bandwidth is a big one...

Seriously, there is a place for the cloud, and keeping your operations there. And there is also a place for running everything yourself. You just have to be brutally honest with yourself and everyone else about what ALL the costs are, both monetary and otherwise, before you make that decision.

In the end, I think many people who go the self-hosted route actually have a much higher TCO than if they used the cloud. Yes, their monetary costs might go up substantially, but there are also non-monetary costs that I think would go down substantially. And I think the latter usually tend to outweigh the former.

Of course, one thing that you have to do when operating in the cloud is to make sure you keep a close eye on all those costs.

The price of freedom is perennial vigilance. And there's a 24x7x365 cost to be paid for perennial vigilance.

The current hype is all about Rust.