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It's not ec2, it's the ecosystem. DDOS, multi-path, multi-az, dr, snapshots, hardware redundancy, elasticity, freedom from datacenter contracts, fiber contract
by zxcmx 10y ago
It's not ec2, it's the ecosystem.
DDOS, multi-path, multi-az, dr, snapshots, hardware redundancy, elasticity, freedom from datacenter contracts, fiber contracts, driving to rack stuff, jammed fingers, staff costs, firmware bugs, bad hardware batches, cdn, compliance costs. I have more but I'll stop there.
It doesn't make sense at very small or large scales but it captures a hell of a lot of the middle.
- chx 10y agoMost of what you described is colo and not dedicated boxes...
- ericd 10y agoAnd honestly, even colo doesn't take that much time unless you're scaling up like crazy. Once we racked our machines, we almost never had to touch them. You can get a LOT of resources in a single box for $10k/server these days.