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📣 mateo-maza

Seeking On-Premises Website Examples for Uptime Comparison Experiment


Hi HN community, I'm conducting an experiment to compare the uptime between cloud hosted and on-premises websites. If you know of any websites that are fully hosted on-premises, could you share them with me? Thanks for your help!


  👤 bbarnett Accepted Answer ✓
I have no such examples for you, as I have no idea of your true intent, but I do have raw info.

You are creating a weird one-or-other scenario here.

For example, many people lease baremetal hardware, and use that. And that isn't "cloud". Nor is it on prem. Others still buy hardware, but still rack it at a colo... buying upstream egress and so forth.

Then there are things such as CDNs, so even if you host the primary site on prem, you might use a CDN for larger images or videos, which predates any use of the word "cloud".

My point is, it isn't as binary as one or the other.


👤 _akhe
https://www.exactchange.network is on my Raspberry Pi in my San Francisco apartment.

The front-ends of the sites therein (e.g. https://www.playshadowvane.com/) are all on Vercel, with the backend/APIs running on exactchange on the on-prem Pi.