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It's not just about scaling up, but also down. In my experience most of the startups initially greatly over-estimate what they need, and end up with only small
by ivanhoe 9y ago
It's not just about scaling up, but also down. In my experience most of the startups initially greatly over-estimate what they need, and end up with only small part of the resources really used. With cloud you can provision what you think you'll need for a few weeks and then, once you get actual usage data, you can scale and fine-tune the setup to fully utilize it (and optimize the costs). And it's done with a few clicks in just a minute or two, without having to manually update anything, anywhere. No need to change DNS zones, no need to copy the data, all the tedious work that's usually involved with moving to a new unmanaged dedicated machine. With EC2 I can do this as often as I wish, while your hosting company would probably go crazy if you'd ask them to provision you a new hardware every week, or change it twice a day because you've changed your mind.
- sly010 9y ago> With cloud you can provision what you think you'll need for a few weeks and then, once you get actual usage data, you can scale and fine-tune the setup to fully utilize it (and optimize the costs). Or in a more realistic scenario you forget to dial back an are paying $200/month extra for unused provisioned IO for years before anyone notices it. Happened, even though I was looking for improvements after every bill.
- ivanhoe 9y agoTrue, but did you ever scale down an already setup & running dedicated machine? With dedicated hardware it's always like "if it works don't touch, and we might need it one day anyway" :)
- sly010 9y agoI guess the point is if you own the machine, there is no reason to scale down, because you already paid the costs upfront. In conclusion cloud providers solve some of the problems they create in the first place very well ;)
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