Comment Re:Sorry, but... (Score 4, Informative) 508
if your servers go down, YOU can fix them immediately
Spoken like someone who has never had to fix a server immediately
One of the strong points of cloud computing is the infrastructure to shift load to accommodate failing hardware. To reproduce that capability with your own hardware & infrastructure requires a tremendous amount of planning and capital investment: in power, servers, and network. It's almost never a simple matter of "fix the server immediately".