I think the same holds for services: if you're a start-up, if you're small, if your IT department is a part-time contractor you mostly get ahold of through Skype, AWS or Azure look a lot like iCloud and Dropbox while the idea of a DL380 sitting in the corner brings up mental images like this: No disagreement about the anti-credentials. They usually sit above an ITT Tech or University of Phoenix on the resume. Nonetheless, those were the guys we hired, back when I was a part of that world.
"Bad server farm" is a fun google image search. I was ragged edge of inviting a Proliant into my life twice. Calmer heads prevailed. Of course, had I gone that way I wouldn't have had to install knoppix on a zip drive to rebuild a ZFS array in man-down formation...