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AWS is quite expensive. It's not the case that it's cheap. Rather, you pay more for convenience. The idea that startups "must" pay AWS or equivalent is the kin
by peoplewindow 9y ago
AWS is quite expensive. It's not the case that it's cheap. Rather, you pay more for convenience.
The idea that startups "must" pay AWS or equivalent is the kind of idiotic junk that only rags like the NYT could come out with. Nothing stops you buying your own hardware and racking it. For many companies that's in fact a better option than paying for cloud services!
- phil21 9y ago> Nothing stops you buying your own hardware and racking it. If you're a bootstrapped startup, sure. I think you'll find it a rather hard sell to tell your VC-backed board that you are hosting somewhere other than AWS or GCE these days. It's an extremely concerning trend for anyone paying attention. Mandated-by-investor vendor lock-in before you even deploy a line of code.
- Bartweiss 9y agoI don't expect anyone will actually be racking their own hardware, but "AWS or CGE only" still sounds pretty narrow to me. Are VCs really going to object to Oracle's bare metal setup, or RackSpace with OpenStack?
- peoplewindow 9y agoWhy would your board care where you host your servers?