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First I don’t mean SoftLayer’s cloud. I mean their physical boxes. A dual processor Xeon that is all your own is a lot. Second, it depends on your expertise. A
by IgorPartola 9y ago
First I don’t mean SoftLayer’s cloud. I mean their physical boxes. A dual processor Xeon that is all your own is a lot.
Second, it depends on your expertise. And you don’t need scale. I ran a successfully bit of infrastructure on SL with seven servers that was quite a bit cheaper than an equivalent AWS setup. I was pretty much solely responsible for the infrastructure and still my responsibilities included more than 80% coding and later management. Given my salary at the time, it was quite cost effective.
- imbkr 9y agowas the comparison based on on-demand instances or reserved instances? we reserve almost all of our instances within our company for 3 years and also get an extra discount on top of it. based on my calculations, i've seen AWS cheapest out of all. would like to know if i'm missing anything
- IgorPartola 9y agoThis was a few years ago so prices have changed on both sides. What I advocate is doing exactly what you did: do a comparison with actual numbers and performance stats instead of hand waving that the cloud is always best.
- mgkimsal 9y agoanother factor that gets overlooked some is on-hand skills and hireable skills. if you have experience (and/or your team does) with dedicated, that should probably be for a non-trivial in decision making. likewise if you have more aws/cloud experience (or have those skills available on staff), there's benefits to that. cloud skills don't magically happen - someone with minimal AWS skills can provide you with a setup that is more expensive to run, and possibly more insecure than a locked down dedicated box.
- IgorPartola 9y agoExactly. If you have expertise to run your own servers, and you don't have a spiky workload, maybe it's worth it. If you have cloud expertise, that may be the winner.