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I can tell you less than 1000 servers in AWS runs around 200-300k US / month I am not sure what he is doing at 25k servers but you can see real world math puts

by geggam 10y ago

I can tell you less than 1000 servers in AWS runs around 200-300k US / month I am not sure what he is doing at 25k servers but you can see real world math puts this in a serious money range. Data centers can be built for less. I wonder if the down voters on the hardware comments actually run services at scale.

doh 10y ago
What kind of servers run at that price range? I've listed [0] some of the reasons why are we hosting in cloud instead of our own datacenter. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260805
- geggam 10y ago
  Various servers, i2 for Cassandra eats most of it. Application at various levels, multi region etc etc We too are hockey sticking but not ready to go to metal .... yet. Your reasons make sense. I would grow that team soon :)
  - doh 10y ago
    We have some large servers, but not too many of them. We're running 32 core nodes that are holding our Postgres, but the majority is smaller.
    - geggam 10y ago
      We are a data company :)
      - doh 10y ago
        I would claim we're also https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/811755523091480576 https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/811755523091480576
  - user5994461 10y ago
    To quote another articles from that site: https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/ https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-... The i2 comparisons are under "local SSD and scaling up". Google have local 400 GB SSD that can be attached to any instance. That's a lot more flexible and a hell lot cheaper when you have specific needs.
user5994461 10y ago
n1-standard-1 * 25k instances = $180k per month with pre-emptibles You didn't see that coming, did you? :D That gives you 25k CPU + 83TB of memory. (Of course, that's just to give a figure, they probably don't use single core instances). Forget everything you know about AWS, it's over priced. Google is half the costs of AWS in average (down to one quarter for special cases). I'm not sure what you mean by building your own datacenters (really, the buy some land and build from scratch?). Just having a bunch of dudes in a few locations worldwide is gonna be a multi-million dollar projects. And I'm not even talking about building, power, cooling, servers, storage, network. That's the hell of an undertaking.

by geggam 10y ago

doh 10y ago

What kind of servers run at that price range? I've listed [0] some of the reasons why are we hosting in cloud instead of our own datacenter. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260805

geggam 10y ago
Various servers, i2 for Cassandra eats most of it. Application at various levels, multi region etc etc We too are hockey sticking but not ready to go to metal .... yet. Your reasons make sense. I would grow that team soon :)
- doh 10y ago
  We have some large servers, but not too many of them. We're running 32 core nodes that are holding our Postgres, but the majority is smaller.
  - geggam 10y ago
    We are a data company :)
    - doh 10y ago
      I would claim we're also https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/811755523091480576 https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/811755523091480576
- user5994461 10y ago
  To quote another articles from that site: https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/ https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-... The i2 comparisons are under "local SSD and scaling up". Google have local 400 GB SSD that can be attached to any instance. That's a lot more flexible and a hell lot cheaper when you have specific needs.

user5994461 10y ago

n1-standard-1 * 25k instances = $180k per month with pre-emptibles You didn't see that coming, did you? :D That gives you 25k CPU + 83TB of memory. (Of course, that's just to give a figure, they probably don't use single core instances). Forget everything you know about AWS, it's over priced. Google is half the costs of AWS in average (down to one quarter for special cases). I'm not sure what you mean by building your own datacenters (really, the buy some land and build from scratch?). Just having a bunch of dudes in a few locations worldwide is gonna be a multi-million dollar projects. And I'm not even talking about building, power, cooling, servers, storage, network. That's the hell of an undertaking.