Submitted by [deleted] t3_1223qcz in explainlikeimfive
m0le t1_jdqj6oc wrote
Reply to comment by thunder_struck85 in ELI5 How does a “website” have so many employees? by [deleted]
Converting mainframe stuff to cloud is... nontrivial at best. If it were easy, it'd be off the mainframe and on something cheaper, because MIPS are horrifyingly expensive on every mainframe I've used. I've worked a lot on really legacy hardware (everything from a VAX cluster that's still in production to this day through Tandem nonstops to relatively recent IBM Z series stuff) and shifting loads to standard x86 hardware is never straightforward.
thunder_struck85 t1_jdqkkdv wrote
Again, you continue to confuse separate issues as one issue. Whether it is trivial or inexpensive or difficult is completely irrelevant to the discussion that spawned this comment chain.
The discussion that spawned this comment chain was simply hardware maintenance in the cloud. And the answer is there is none. You pay a premium to have someone do that for you. That's it.
Everything else is a completely different discussion
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