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I certainly think this will be the trend for startups but I believe it will take much longer for established companies to get out of the buying hardware busines
by ranman 11y ago
I certainly think this will be the trend for startups but I believe it will take much longer for established companies to get out of the buying hardware business. Often times running locally can be drastically less costly than running on Amazon -- especially if you already have the staff dedicated to that sort of role.
- samstave 11y agoI agree -- but I am curious to know the diff in opex/capex when you dont need to have staff to handle said HW/Roles etc... I am sure this has been looked at by people -- anyone know of a report on it?
- vidarh 11y agoI don't know of any reports on it, but from personal experience, the amount of time spent on average per physical server I configure and shift around is a tiny fraction of the time I spend dealing with AWS peculiarities you don't have to deal when you control your own hardware (I currently split my time 60/40 between two clients - one with a physical hosting environment set up as a private cloud split over two colo's, and one in AWS) The company I manage physical servers for would go bankrupt if we were to pay AWS level rates. Last time we priced it out we were looking at ~3x hosting cost - including fully loaded cost for staff time spent on maintenance etc.