Subj : Re: Advice on self-hosting a website?
To   : dflorey
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Apr 07 2025 11:17 am

-=> dflorey wrote to Arelor <=-

 Ar> Where I work at we have been pulling services off the cloud back into
 Ar> our premises because budgetworthy cloud services are not that reliable.

 df> Seems to be a common trend lately - moving back to on-prem or a hybrid
 df> approach.

It's the full-employment coventant for IT - spend months moving
everything to the cloud, knowing full well that in a couple of years,
you get to move everything back. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

 df> I work for an MSP and one of our key backup offerings was to resell
 df> cloud backup solutions to our clients. To be fair, WE hosted the backup
 df> repositories in our private DC (I wouldn't want it any other way), but
 df> the vendor (Arcserve) decide to completely axe the platform - putting
 df> us in a position where we had to pivot to another product!

That's a name I haven't heard in years. I used to use Arcserve to back
up Novell servers!

 
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