Comment by tedd4u
5 hours ago
Probably depends on where your gross margins would be with cloud and if you're higher or lower growth. If cloud will let you grow faster (HA/DR on-prem is hard) and you'll still have 75-80%+ gross margins, why slow top-line growth to do on-prem?
It’s not a real concern for vast majority of businesses. It’s a common excuse but practically no business is outgrowing a cheaper than cloud solution. Maybe on-prem isn’t right first step, but that doesn’t force you to cloud. There’s dedicated servers and everything in between.
On prem is maybe not the best first step but Colo or dedicated servers gives you a cleaner path to going on-prem if you ever decide to. The cost of growth is too high in cloud.
Learning how to run servers is actually less complicated than all the cloud architecture stuff and doesn’t have to be slower. There’s no one sized fits all, but I believe old boring solutions should be employed first and could be used to run most applications. Technology has a way of getting more complex every year just to accomplish the same tasks. But that’s largely optional.