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Ya, I feel like this must be coming from the younger crowd who is just used to seeing all the cloud marketing comparing cloud computer to building your own data center.

Anyone who has been in the industry since pre-cloud explosion knows that most people just rented bare metal and at the more complicated end they might purchase their own hardware and colocate.

And for those that own their servers, many lease them and HP or Dell or whoever maintains them on site if anything goes wrong.




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