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Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation

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242 points panrobo | 2 comments | 05 Nov 24 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.027s | source
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kjellsbells ◴[05 Nov 24 21:30 UTC] No.42055342[source]▶
Kjell's Law: the cost of a platform eventually exceeds the cost of the one it replaced. But each cost is in a different budget.

We seem to have replaced cooling and power and a grumpy sysadmin with storage and architects and unhappy developers.

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jimt1234 ◴[05 Nov 24 21:49 UTC] No.42055481[source]▶
I've never worked in a data center that did cooling and power correctly. Everyone thinks they're doing it right, and then street power gets cut - there's significant impact, ops teams scramble to contain, and finally there's the finger-pointing.
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1. doubled112 ◴[05 Nov 24 23:30 UTC] No.42056128[source]▶
The colo I’m used to has survived multiple switch overs to backup and then to diesel generators without a blip that I could detect.

I say “I’m used to” because having things there has spanned more than one job.

One power outage was days to a week. Don’t recall exactly.

It’s possible to do it right.

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2. SoftTalker ◴[06 Nov 24 04:10 UTC] No.42057151[source]▶
Yes it's possible. But it's not cheap. If you buy a bunch of UPS and a few generators (you need more than one, in case it doesn't start) and don't maintain them regularly and test them regularly that's when you get some bad surprises.