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We're a small business and hosting costs are killing us. Spending $300+ on a small VM that I can only describe as measly really hurts.
by sixothree 7y ago
We're a small business and hosting costs are killing us. Spending $300+ on a small VM that I can only describe as measly really hurts.
- MattGaiser 7y agoWhat the heck are you running? Ouch.
- sixothree 7y agoWhen you factor in storage, backups, and all the little support costs, things start to get pricey. Just the db can go from 500gb to a tb. Then all of that data came from somewhere and needs to be stored at least for a while. Never mind the load balancing. And then we need another server for a different client, and another, and a demo server, and test & staging environments. Ugh. I wish this were on-premmable. We could probably hire an employee for the amount we could save. He'd probably be pulling his hair out supporting it tho. lol My little on-prem HP dev server's got hundred gigs of ram and 8tb of fast storage. We run a bunch of VMs on there. We paid a couple of thousand dollars for it. And I don't even want to think of what it would cost to ship those VMs to the cloud. Nevermind just how poorly they would perform.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoI have recwntly put together a K8S clyster out of old and bargain basement hardware for hosting personal projects. Equivalent perf. from big cloud would cost me $ 400++
- Nextgrid 7y agoSimilar situation here but on a bandwidth level. A 1Gbps leased line costs me ~400 bucks a month and is unmetered even if I keep it saturated for the entire month. I don’t even want to imagine the cost of that on a cloud provider.