1. Reliability & disaster‑recovery is a real risk
“I fully lost three small VPS there, and their response was poor… I got better updates from the news than from them.” – otherme123
“They handled the fire terribly and after that they improved a bit, but an OVH VPS is just a VM running on a single piece of hardware.” – wiether
2. Capex vs. Opex – the cost debate
“If you’re building a datacenter for $5 M, spending $10‑15 M for redundant datacenters … would still be cheaper than their estimated $25 M cloud costs.” – mbreese
“It’s much cheaper to rent the rack space in a data‑center and have that covered. It’s still much cheaper than running that in cloud.” – PunchyHamster
3. Managing your own hardware is hard work
“The hard part is keeping it updated, keeping the OS updated, automate backups, deploying replicas, encrypting the volumes… it’s a lot of work.” – Symbiote
“You need people on standby to fix the server in case of hardware issues… you need a whole team.” – lstodd
4. Redundancy and scaling matters
“A single site is a single point of failure. If your head office is hit by a meteor your business is over.” – direwolf20
“Cloud excels for bursty or unpredictable workloads where quickly scaling up and down can save you money.” – langarus
5. Sovereignty, compliance and privacy
“The compliance package they bring to the party… no other cloud provider has anything remotely like that.” – bob1029
“You can’t have the same level of control over data and infrastructure when you’re locked into a cloud.” – vachina
6. Hybrid / middle‑ground options are gaining traction
“Managed private cloud – still minimal‑to‑no cap‑ex, hiring, risk, and medium‑sized operational cost.” – adamcharnock
“Renting bare metal instead of renting virtual machines can be quite nice.” – jillesvangurp
These six themes capture the main arguments that ran through the discussion.