Use One Big Server (2022)

I run on VPSs as well. I ditched cloud a long time ago. Once my project starts making money, I will definitely buy my own hardware and collocate. Cloud is like dating apps. We had fun for a decade but it's time to get serious and get some things actually done and be productive again.

> I will definitely buy my own hardware and collocate.

Even colocation is often fraud with issues. I shall not mentioned the plectra of dead hardware from datacenter electricity failures. Ironically, my home has more stable electricity then some datacenters lol.

Unless you running a business where a few minutes downtime will cost you millions, most companies can literally run their own servers from their basements. I often see how much people overestimate their need for 99.999% uptime, or bandwidth requirements.

Its not like colocation is that much cheaper. The electricity prices your paying are often more expensive then even business/home electricity. That leave only internet/fiber, and the pletra of commercial fiber these days.

Used to get minimum quoted price of 2k, for a 1Gbit business fiber years ago (not inc install costs). Now you get in some countries, 5 or 10Gbit for 100 Euro business fiber.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm not running my servers from my home, considering my 1Gb fiber has 3ms latency, and a good UPS would get me through all but a couple of the longest power outages I've had in the last 15 years. As long as I'm hosting small business web sites or something like that, and not critical banking or hospital systems, there's no reason it wouldn't be fine.

When my colo contract runs out in a couple years, I may seriously consider it, especially since they're already talking about offering bigger bandwidth packages.