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An oxide rack has a minimum cost of something like 600k not including all the infra you need to run a rack, maintenance, and then needing to upgrade

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Railway's bill was into the multiple millions per year at the very least so that doesn't necessarily rule it out.

That’s one misconception about leaving cloud people think it’s a one time cost compared to opex, but in reality you are just moving the spending. Devops for your now custom on prem workflows, toil due to inferior tooling compared to cloud, physical costs like electricity and cooling, space for the racks, physical security, high availability, etc I mean there’s so much downside.

I said "doesn't necessarily rule it out" rather than a stronger claim advisedly.

You're entirely correct that there are an unfortunate number of people who hold that misconception, but (a) I'm not one of them (b) that wasn't my point.

In the post they say they pay Google "multiple millions" of dollars already. Depending on their needs, the TCO of Oxide racks may end up being less than what they pay GCP.

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