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>worried about hiring domestic IT staff when there's literally a glut of them.
I would do this for very cheap assuming I had a low workload and was able to work mostly remotely. That is unless I had to upgrade or respond to hardware issues. I fucking hate working full time.
>Outages caused by storms
But muh AWS is good enough, and again, what was the point of having multiple redundant locations? It's a lot better than putting all your eggs in the AWS US-EAST-1 basket.
>VPN costs
Fucking please. Are corpos this fucking stupid? How can I take what you're saying seriously?
Yeah boss, adding VPN support to our network is going to cost us dearly!
I can believe Cisco might charge some outrageous fee for adding VPN support to some networking device, but why the fuck are you paying that when there are solutions that are basically free and work just as well?
I am surprised cloud providers care enough to run damage control on /g/ of all places.
Imagine actually having your IT staff actually do something themselves instead of relying on their vendors for everything. I guess it's always easier to just pass the buck onto someone else instead of taking responsibility for your own infrastructure though.
I guess corpos really have no clue how to take advantage of open source solutions that are literally fucking free, and instead rely on proprietary shit so unstable they have to also pay outlandish fees for support contracts.
I guess no one will ever learn anything from this AWS mess.
Then again I've been doing this kind of thing since the late 90s when I was literally 19 years old. I just can't fathom what has happened to IT at this point. I had no problem keeping five 9s even in the early 00s.