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Actually we're paying a little bit more because it is a Windows instance :) Admittedly we also find it expensive, but we try to balance off by making use of th
by antaviana 10y ago
Actually we're paying a little bit more because it is a Windows instance :)
Admittedly we also find it expensive, but we try to balance off by making use of their infrastructure. Altogether we pay about half of what we used to pay when we had our servers collocated and we had a need for overprovising, so we still have a sense of saving money, at least for now (we migrated from collocated servers to AWS 6 months ago).
- trome 10y agoWhy not just colo or rent a dual E5 box with 256GB of ram and a few SSDs? You'd get a much more reliable experience for a lot less than your paying, AWS's business model currently has them throttling CPU use very aggressively. You could throw KVM or Xen on it and run Windows atop it pretty easily, plus depending on where you colo you could likely get some DDOS protection thrown in. Alternatively, Subnet Labs, Vultr or any of the dozens of other providers that specialize in dedicated core VPSes could likely come in at somewhere around a quarter of what your currently paying, which would take you out of the loop for managing hardware entirely. Have you asked Amazon whats going on yet by the way?
- antaviana 10y agoSomeone changed the original link for this thread to another link in Stack Overflow that actually explains the reason for the behavior. Strange but true.