Jeez, this post is brimming with strawmen. (Why am I even bothering...)
> Why pay 5-10X as much to host on AWS?
Nobody said anything about AWS...
> Hosts make a lot of sense for small companies
Sure, nobody is disputing their choice of colocating themselves.
> OS or hardware choice you're making "vendor lockin" to that platform
It is abundantly clear that the vendor lock-in refers to single sourcing your hardware. That problem is nonexistent on Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.
> I think one Mac Pro probably replaces 4 or 5 Linux boxes
Oh come on, now you're just talking crazy... see other posts in this thread for a cost/performance comparison.
> you're not understanding what it is that they are doing
On the contrary, I think I understand better than you. Do you perform a lot of image processing work on various platforms (including OSX and Linux)? I do.
> Why pay 5-10X as much to host on AWS?
Nobody said anything about AWS...
> Hosts make a lot of sense for small companies
Sure, nobody is disputing their choice of colocating themselves.
> OS or hardware choice you're making "vendor lockin" to that platform
It is abundantly clear that the vendor lock-in refers to single sourcing your hardware. That problem is nonexistent on Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.
> I think one Mac Pro probably replaces 4 or 5 Linux boxes
Oh come on, now you're just talking crazy... see other posts in this thread for a cost/performance comparison.
> you're not understanding what it is that they are doing
On the contrary, I think I understand better than you. Do you perform a lot of image processing work on various platforms (including OSX and Linux)? I do.