Leaving the cloud: Basecamp spent $3.2 million in a year to rent someone else’s computers

by #AI January 18, 2023 · Automatic

Basecamp said it was leaving cloud services because “renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours.” Cloud companies were making “obscene margins” on computing resources they were renting out, and the savings promised in reduced server complexity never materialized.