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Maybe you are not. This offering definitely sounds like something for on prem and not a large data center. Basically, if your core competence is hosting stuff you don't need the extra value they provide. But if your core competence is basically anything else and just need more than a single server under the IT guys' desk then this begins to look very exciting.

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You might be right but if a customer won't have the size/scale, it won't value the unique proposition from Oxide. I hope I am wrong because it would be great to see a new player with a fresh perspective in the hardware market.

Bryan Cantril claims the cost of running these could be worth it for many small companies, and if you compare it to EC2 costs for running let's say a CI I find that easy to believe. Maybe it won't be cheaper than Hetzner and co. but that's not what they are competing against on a product level.

If you could drop ship a rack of gear to the Colo before, with the puny compute and bandwidth potential in that number of Rack Units, didn’t it just become massively more appealing?

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