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I mean yeah, AWS is a 10-100x markup over running your own stuff. I run a file hosting site that serves >500TB of data to about 2 million monthly users on a bu
by chmod775 6y ago
I mean yeah, AWS is a 10-100x markup over running your own stuff.
I run a file hosting site that serves >500TB of data to about 2 million monthly users on a bunch of dedicated servers that cost me about $500 a month.
If I ran this on AWS it would cost me more than $20,000 every month.
I could hire four system administrators to do nothing but look after each of my four dedicated servers for that money.
It's completely ridiculous.
- leesalminen 6y agoOutbound data transfer pricing is definitely _the_ gotcha for the big clouds.
- trianglem 6y agoSame. I’ve been in places that self host and it’s not nearly enough to overcome what AWS (in my case Azure) charge. 99.5% uptime in contracts lets you realistically have a lot of downtime to fix your problems. That’s more than 400 hours of acceptable downtime. We’re in the process of making the switch and we project to pay 30% of what we’re currently paying.
- rubatuga 6y agoThere's not even 44 hours of downtime in a year for 99.5% SLA, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
- MattGaiser 6y agoIsn't transfer a huge cost for AWS? I know of some people who have gone with Oracle because it supposedly has much lower pricing on that.