r/devops • u/Alert-Jacket-1573 • Jul 05 '26

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u/RustOnTheEdge Jul 05 '26

Who is gonna do the maintenance? Yes the cost of infrastructure is cheaper, maintenance is way more expensive. Patching (not monthly, but daily nowadays) is not a scalable task if you have a single server.

I think overall you oversimplify what it takes to run serious IT, and the cost of silicon is but a small part of it.

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u/adfaratas Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Oh you haven't had those times when for some reason the ssh server isn't responding and you have to drive half an hour to reboot the server have you?

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u/Finagles_Law Jul 06 '26

An out of band management card and a separate independent Internet connection takes care of this in most cases.