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Surely the traffic/load isn't that variable? Seems like even a VPS provider (linode/slicehost/etc) would offer far more bang for the buck. The pricing for band
by axod 16y ago
Surely the traffic/load isn't that variable? Seems like even a VPS provider (linode/slicehost/etc) would offer far more bang for the buck.
The pricing for bandwidth alone on EC2 is simply insane.
- jedberg 16y agoActually, it isn't so much the traffic. It's when something like Cassandra suddenly stops working correctly and we need to take emergency action to keep the site up by, for example, doubling our memcached pool temporarily. None of the VPS's can give us that many nodes that quickly. Also, bandwidth is by far our lowest cost. It is less than 5% of our total bill.
- axod 16y ago>> "Also, bandwidth is by far our lowest cost. It is less than 5% of our total bill." I can't see why Reddit should be a particularly high CPU usage website. So perhaps time to optimize and swap out some things...