Re: Remind me again
Because local services NEVER go down...
Cloud isn't evil, as such, you just have to know what its limitations are, like everything else. The dependency on your whole work network of simple things like: The clocks being in sync, connectivity being absolute and not overloaded, power being up etc. are all present still. There are few businesses or even home users that can approach the uptime of something like Google Cloud given the number of services it runs for them.
Hell, I have to reset my home router about once a month and if it's out for five minutes at a time, that means in a year, I have an hour's downtime just doing that.
Cloud isn't evil, but neither is it the answer to everything.
Personally, I don't enjoy faffing trying to keep our Exchange server up and exposed to the world compared to my last workplace where we just had Google Mail for Domains. Sure, it can go down, but more likely WE went down as a workplace and that means we can at least check email on phones even with the connectivity and servers off.
It all depends what you want, how you want it, and what you're willing to pay for it. Personally, there's a lot of in-house stuff here and I'd like to keep most of it that way. But a few things, I'd gladly push to the cloud and let someone else worry about it en-masse.
And anyone who believes that ANYTHING is the complete answer on its own is an idiot. Sorry.