Orathan: Cloud Without the Rent

Cloud costs have not kept up with Moore's Law and it is cheaper per year to own bare metal servers. Most developers just want to build their app and not worry about sysadmin. The cloud provides nice abstractions like consoles, CLIs and APIs.

When I moved out of the cloud, I wanted something like an Oxide Computer, but a rack starts at $500k. A lot of people have asked Oxide if they can buy a single sled - but that's not Oxide's focus at this stage of their strategy.

So I bought a Dell and administrated it myself and developed a lot of custom software to manage containers and databases. That's not the experience I want for others, so I've started Orathan to give developers the cloud experience on bare metal.