Comment by sgarland

12 hours ago

> My pet theory about the real reason: the hyper-scalers hire all the engineers who have the skills to deploy-to-a-few-beefy-servers, and then charge a 10x multiplier for compute.

This is also my pet theory, and it’s maddening. They’ve successfully convinced an entire generation of devs that physical servers are super scary and they shouldn’t ever have to look at them.