House Panther May 28

#onpremisesinfrastructure is vastly underrated. What are you going to do when #GoogleWorkspace or #Microsoft365 shut your account down because their AI decides to and you have no recourse. You can’t sue them because you’ve agreed to their terms of service. Oops? 🤷‍♂️

Also, what many don’t know is even if data is stored in the cloud, the customer is still responsible for backing up and archiving their data. The cloud company does some rudimentary disaster recovery but has specific indemnification against data loss. Marketing conveniently glosses over this. 😈

The #cloud cannot be trusted for small businesses. #Selfhosting is the way to go. It’s not hard at all and I am in the midst of writing a book for people with a minimal technical background to get started as easily as possible. Or even for them to have a technical friend help them out.

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@housepanther I proudly state that I have managed to keep two rather big companies away from the cloud by simply calculating that their own on premise equipment was cheaper and literally more “ in their hands” should problems occur.

Apart from the politics, the costs of the cloud are generally underestimated, the costs of on premise equipment are generally overestimated because: you can see it. I mean it literally. You can see the equipment.

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Show threadHouse Panther May 29

@Paul_Harts Good work! You would think that the financial wizards would have seen this. Unfortunately, many of the C-suite people get swayed by "shiny object syndrome." That's what the #cloud is to them. Or even worse, they go to this or that cloud service because their golfing buddies did it.

There is a lot to be said simply for maintaining control of your systems. With a good disaster recovery plan in place, you can be back in production as fast (if not faster) than your cloud provider.