On-Prem vs Cloud

Users debate and inquire about on-premises (on-prem) deployment options for software/services as alternatives to cloud hosting, discussing availability, setups, advantages, and preferences for self-hosting.

📉 Falling 0.5x DevOps & Infrastructure
3,098
Comments
20
Years Active
5
Top Authors
#3618
Topic ID

Activity Over Time

2007
5
2008
2
2009
18
2010
27
2011
37
2012
51
2013
75
2014
82
2015
81
2016
208
2017
173
2018
169
2019
198
2020
293
2021
303
2022
318
2023
406
2024
309
2025
318
2026
25

Keywords

OpenShift HA CPU catern.com JEDI AWS LB OpenSolaris progsys.html EC2 prem cloud premise provider paas aws premises cloud provider service provider bare metal

Sample Comments

rswail Oct 25, 2019 View on HN

Not if you host it on-prem/on-your-servers

ifhs Oct 28, 2016 View on HN

Don't you mean on-premise?

NikolaeVarius Jun 18, 2019 View on HN

You forget there is an option to run on-prem

MindTheAbstract Jun 12, 2025 View on HN

I wonder if there's some amount of on-prem going on there

regularfry Apr 23, 2019 View on HN

Is "on prem" the same as "another cloud provider"? Or is it irrelevant to the discussion?

ec109685 May 21, 2024 View on HN

They didn’t say they are running this on prem.

jakobson14 Nov 15, 2023 View on HN

If you can't trust the cloud host, you should be on-prem.

andsoitis Dec 24, 2025 View on HN

If someone wanted that, wouldn't they just have it on-prem?

ComodoHacker Jun 24, 2020 View on HN

Would it be any simpler when running on-prem or in another cloud?

mafro Jun 8, 2018 View on HN

That's awesome. Can you elaborate more on your setup, and why cloud doesn't make sense? I'm really interested in cases like this.