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People always forget that there is a world between the "cloud" and leasing collocation space where you manage your own servers and routers. Renting dedicated s
by fooyc 10y ago
People always forget that there is a world between the "cloud" and leasing collocation space where you manage your own servers and routers.
Renting dedicated servers is what everyone did before AWS, and it's still the most affordable hosting.
- kuschku 10y agoExactly. As I showed here [1], there’s almost an order of magnitude between EC2 and dedicated servers, while EC2 provides no benefit (unless you have highly variable load – but in that case, you can just use EC2 in addition to your existing servers). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12627864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12627864