> Also, the computer sitting on your desk is not "many many times faster" than a current, or even few years old, server.
The server is a big pie. If you're buying a single slice, then yes, it's very very easy for a cheap old desktop to be way faster than a cheap VPS.
> Imagine IT people are the same, instead of assuming they're all idiots who are too stupid to go out and buy desktop computers instead of servers like your genius self.
It's the managers that are idiots. Not everything needs to run in a datacenter. Some things really are kittens and not cattle.
The server is a big pie. If you're buying a single slice, then yes, it's very very easy for a cheap old desktop to be way faster than a cheap VPS.
> Imagine IT people are the same, instead of assuming they're all idiots who are too stupid to go out and buy desktop computers instead of servers like your genius self.
It's the managers that are idiots. Not everything needs to run in a datacenter. Some things really are kittens and not cattle.