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Same for the enterprise (non-tech I assume) world. When I was on the business side, we treasured any compute we could get that was not tied to corporate IT. Going through them would turn a 1 day fix into a 2 week endeavor. Product development would go from 1 month to 6 or more.

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You've found out a huge reason cloud took off so hard. Lots of it is shadow-IT.

Nobody except a few universities actually uses subdomains as they should be, where you actually delegate the subdomain to the business unit using it.

I tried to access gettysburg.edu the other day and was greeted by a stupid redirect page (with a meta refresh tag) insisting on use of www rather than just issuing the redirect immediately.

The reality is they're stuck in 1995 and won't make rational changes.

I think someone extremely rational is making a lot of big changes and I could not be more excited to see the outcome.

Yes. I remember the delight of deploying my first server with a credit card. The previous one had taken 6 weeks and $100,000 out of our department budget. Such a godsend.

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