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Meta-comment: cost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098576 cost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230
by Groxx 7y ago
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cost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098576
cost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097812
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threat model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098612
cost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097896 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097896
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That's just the in-order top comments I'm seeing right now. (please do read and upvote them / others too, they're widely varying in their details and are interesting)
The answer's the same as it has always been. Cloud is more expensive, unless you're small enough to not pay for a sysadmin, or need to swing between truly extreme scale differences. And a few exceptions for other reasons.
- cortesoft 7y agoThere is also another answer... I work for a CDN, so we can't really use the cloud when in many ways we ARE the cloud. Although we do often make jokes about "what if we just move the CDN to AWS?"
- mcny 7y agoIt is a pity East Dakota won’t make jokes like these. Can you imagine cloudflare running on aws? What happens when someone tries to denial of service them while on aws? On a different note, Netflix still runs “on the cloud”, right? I mean what does it really mean? Dropbox can still have most of its stuff on aws and do the expensive part on premises if cost is a concern? The truly bizarre stuff happens at hybrid cloud.
- ddorian43 7y agoNetflix runs it's own bandwidth/cdn. Sometimes it actually has a pop/box INSIDE your ISP https://openconnect.netflix.com/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/.
- mcny 7y agoMy understanding is the website, the user services such as authentication, heart beat (not sure what is the proper technical term but the thing that says where I am in a particular episode). That and internal apps like project tracker not to mention dev/test. At least in my imagination. At my work, I'm not even worth throwing an SSD at my work computer. My manager is powerless to help as the company has some kind of deal to only buy from HP? No idea what kind of glue procurement is sniffing at this company...