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I think this argument/comparison warrants including the pricing of purchasing a hands on rack from a data center directly. A full 1Gbps up/down cost about $200
by sbr464 7y ago
I think this argument/comparison warrants including the pricing of purchasing a hands on rack from a data center directly.
A full 1Gbps up/down cost about $200/mo, plus ~$150/mo for the managed fiber run. A full locked rack is around 800-1,200$/month. You can load up 40U worth of Dell R730xd, or R740xd (dell outlet). Throw in a few enterprise HP 10g fiber switches (refurbished).
You will quickly start to crush any cloud pricing. But you need IT/VMWare experience.
Keep in mind that a cpu/core on AWS or GCP is a fraction of an actual cpu/core. It’s a spot representation of an x cpu from some arbitrary time way back when. Even if their specs say differently, try running a job on a 2x cpu machine vs 2x cpu on dedicated hardware.
- nhumrich 7y agoCloud computing is cheaper, not because its actually cheaper, but because of elasticity. If you dont need elasticity, then yes, colo will always be cheaper. If you are in the cloud you should be autoscaling, as that is the main premise of why the cloud took over, and why the cloud can save you money. Only pay for what you need right now That being said, if you can actually plan well enough in the future for colo, you can also pay 3 years in advanced for aws reserved, and pay significantly less than these prices.
- sbr464 7y agoI completely agree. I only mentioned because the article included providers that don’t include the same level of ecosystem benefits, which seems slightly unfair (from a CTO/board decision perspective). I think including a baseline colo option gives insight. Also, purchasing Dell R7xx hardware, from our experience, has almost 100% uptime at scale, over the past 10+ years, confidently running a 3yr machine 5-7 yrs easily.