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So if you don't ignore the upfront cost, you break even at the 3 month point using his numbers. His argument is every bit as strong regardless of the shape of
by jasonkester 16y ago
So if you don't ignore the upfront cost, you break even at the 3 month point using his numbers. His argument is every bit as strong regardless of the shape of your cows.
- mmt 16y agoI do agree with the OC, but I also think his situation leans unusually in favor of the colo option. That is, 3.7 month break-even is a much stronger argument than 10 months, so I'd be interested in hearing what others have found to be the break-even point with various cloud providers.
- jasonkester 16y agoI use boxes in the cloud for various things, but not yet for hosting. We have a couple big fast machines in a cage, of the sort that would cost a grand a month if they were on EC2, that we run all our sites from. Once you have a single project that justifies the colo box, the marginal cost of starting a new project with a new website is zero. No need to configure a $20/month slicehost box and cross your fingers that it can handle a Redditting. You just put it on the monster box that can handle anything you throw at it until it demonstrates that it needs a big machine of its own.