Are the days of on-premise servers over?
summary
Argues that public cloud convenience hides high and unpredictable costs and vendor lock‑in, citing a $500 accidental sandbox bill, an analysis of a small EKS cluster at $800 per month, and market forecasts of private cloud growing 30% per year versus public 23% per year. Describes using VMware/ESX, ZFS, CloudStack/OpenStack, Kubernetes, Atlantis/terraform and the pain of storage and noisy neighbors; proposes Qumulus: an opinionated, subscription, pay‑as‑you‑go private cloud that streamlines open‑source stacks and already offers plans from $150 per month and a developer survey of 68,000 developers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Server evolution
- 3:54Containers vs public cloud
- 7:30Cloud adoption costs
- 10:16Private cloud status
- 13:07Modern private cloud
- 17:01Developers and private cloud
- 19:51Open source development
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