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That doesn't sound possible. Are you saying your raw bill for _just_ colo (ie. space and power) and bandwidth (ie. IP transit) was less than your _entire_ AWS b

• Johnny555 10y ago
  The 4 rack cage plus extra power plus redundant network at a Tier I datacenter costs us close to $6K/month (including some block of remote hands hours). Even at our peak we didn't have the racks full, allowed room for expansion. Note that this cost includes only coloc costs, not server or network leases/purchases. We have very bursty traffic and run our baseload of ~ 30 severs (mostly m4.larges, with a few smaller utility servers as well as larger servers for back end services) most of the time, but when we need to scale, we ramp up to about 2 - 4 times that, but usually only for a few hours at a time. We also do some batch processing that takes a few high-memory servers for about a day each week. We monitor costs pretty closely and our monthly AWS spend is still less than the coloc fees, and we are much more scalable now and have multi-datacenter (AZ) redundancy, and by the end of the year, we will have a cold spare in a second region (which will cost us very little since it will be mostly powered off) We no longer need to vastly over-provision servers to handle our peak load and batch processing needs.