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I'm not sure that AWS/GCP is cheaper. I'm running 20 VMs on my home vCenter/ESXi setup, and it's costing me $60/mo in electricity. If I had the same setup in GC

• breakingcups 6y ago
  While I agree bare metal is way cheaper than the cloud, they aren't comparable. You didn't specify what the hardware cost you, nor what it would cost someone else to buy new and how it compares to cloud servers. Add to that lack of redundancy, having to do hardware maintenance yourself, no add-on services unless you run and manage them yourself, no flexibility in scaling up or down, etc. IT is probably perfect for your use-case, but not for the use case of the people who choose the cloud.
  • brian_cunnie 6y ago
    You're absolutey right—they aren't comparable, and my personal example is misleading. For clarity's sake, my setup cost ~$10k, and includes a 12TB ZFS NAS server, a 10GBe back end, 2 ESXi hosts totaling 16 cores, 256GB. It also took many weekends to set up (and labor isn't cheap). The uplink is mere Comcast, and, at 30Mbps, does not come close to rivaling a cloud offering. Also, I'm unable to scale as fast as the cloud (think weeks instead of minutes). On the positive side, for those of us who love infrastructure, there's nothing like running your own, very small, cloud. Disclosure: I work for VMware.