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In terms of raw machine cost it generally goes owning a DC < owning machines + leasing racks < leasing dedicated < VPS < cloud. But each level down you go is a
by Veratyr 10y ago
In terms of raw machine cost it generally goes owning a DC < owning machines + leasing racks < leasing dedicated < VPS < cloud.
But each level down you go is another level of expertise you have to employ someone for and a loss of flexibility.
The strength of the cloud has never been cost, it's always been flexibility, the ability to scale up 1000 servers in 5 minutes without any preparation or management.
- devoply 10y agoYea but those 1000 server are going to do the job of 100 dedicated servers. You still have to provision them, and there aren't too many use cases (there are some) where you have to all the sudden jump 10x of demand. The reason cloud soars is because in developed economies the cost of human resources is astronomically high. The savings are from having fewer people deal with stuff. Even 100k/year bill is okay if that means that 1 person has to deal with it rather than 2 or 3. So if you have money then cloud makes all the sense in the world, if you don't have money and have a bit of free time dedicated servers make a lot of sense until you have money.
- late2part 10y agoYou're crazy son. AWS has this thing called "Resource Limits." I'll paypal you $20 if you show me a real screenshot that show you have 1k more instances available in your resource limits than you're using - subject to hangout verification.