It's apples to apples depending upon the needs of the project and business. From my experience few projects can go 100% serverless. Once you give that up, much of what you talk about is back into your view anyways. Beyond that, cloud vs physical servers again depends upon the requirements of the project and business.
We do a mix of cloud and physical servers, and I'm pushing our company to go more serverless (and cloud), but that could easily change based upon which projects gain traction. Some are high revenue like ecommerce, but others are more ad based and the cloud would probably dig into margins too much. We also aren't a VC backed startup nor are we a huge business so the needs are different. But at our scale, colocating, much less virtual servers, is not even a full time job.
And when I say requirements, I mean actual requirements. Many like to talk about 100% uptime. Then most seem to build their project to only work on a single region of AWS. Single region SLA of AWS is 99.95%. Guess they didn't need that 100% uptime. Of course, multi region is much harder, which is why they do it. But still, I wish people would stop talking about benefits they aren't actually taking advantage of. It makes it difficult to separate the signal from the bullshit.
We do a mix of cloud and physical servers, and I'm pushing our company to go more serverless (and cloud), but that could easily change based upon which projects gain traction. Some are high revenue like ecommerce, but others are more ad based and the cloud would probably dig into margins too much. We also aren't a VC backed startup nor are we a huge business so the needs are different. But at our scale, colocating, much less virtual servers, is not even a full time job.
And when I say requirements, I mean actual requirements. Many like to talk about 100% uptime. Then most seem to build their project to only work on a single region of AWS. Single region SLA of AWS is 99.95%. Guess they didn't need that 100% uptime. Of course, multi region is much harder, which is why they do it. But still, I wish people would stop talking about benefits they aren't actually taking advantage of. It makes it difficult to separate the signal from the bullshit.