whether to leave the cloud isn't ideology. it's five questions, in order:

bill under ~$2k/mo? traffic spiky? someone who WANTS to own infra? egress or steady compute your biggest cost? can you treat a hardware failure as planned, not invisible?

the first "yes" that points back to the cloud wins. i run bare metal because my workload sits on the far side of all five. most don't.

https://rajesh.medampudi.com/blog/bare-metal-vs-cloud

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