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I could replicate my whole infrastructure on 3 different OVH datacenters, with enough provision to support twice the peak load - it would still be cheaper than

by fooyc 6y ago

I could replicate my whole infrastructure on 3 different OVH datacenters, with enough provision to support twice the peak load - it would still be cheaper than a single infrastructure at AWS, and I would get a better uptime than AWS: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22aws%20is%20down%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

manishsharan 6y ago
I agree with you 100%. However, I did state * any CTO or CIO of any public company* ... the executives don't worry about costs , they worry about being able to * project reliability * .
- fooyc 6y ago
  Executives that worry about reliability would insist on deploying on multiple data centers, which would make the project more reliable than any single AWS availability zone. Also, cost matters if the AWS bill is one of the company's top expenses.
joshuamorton 6y ago
reserved a1.large instances are about half the price of OVH's b2-7 instance. a1.xlarge are still cheaper (and larger). So you get more raw compute per dollar on AWS. What?
- kuschku 6y ago
  If you need that large machines, and are willing to use reserved instances, you'd go with dedis on OVH instead of VMs. Which is significantly cheaper
  - joshuamorton 6y ago
    OVH dedicated instances start at about the size of an a1.metal instance, which is ~30% more than the comparable OVH instance, but you can get discounts in various ways. Or you could use t4g.2xlarge, which is cheaper. There's no situation where OVH is 3x cheaper (I mean maybe if bandwidth is your thing, but IDK).
    - fooyc 6y ago
      I'm curious how you make your comparisons. Here is mine: AWS a1.metal: $293 per month for 16 ARM cores, 16GB memory OVH Rise-4 [1]: $131 per month for 16 Intel Xeon cores, 128GB memory, 500Mbit/s And the ARM CPUs on the AWS instances are nowhere near the intel cores here, so maybe this configuration is comparable: OVH Rise-APAC [2]: $57 per month for 4 Intel Xeon cores, 32GB memory [1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-4/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-4/ [2] https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-apac/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-apac/
    - jiofih 6y ago
      Performance of those AWS instances comes nowhere close despite the specs.

by fooyc 6y ago

manishsharan 6y ago

I agree with you 100%. However, I did state * any CTO or CIO of any public company* ... the executives don't worry about costs , they worry about being able to * project reliability * .

fooyc 6y ago
Executives that worry about reliability would insist on deploying on multiple data centers, which would make the project more reliable than any single AWS availability zone. Also, cost matters if the AWS bill is one of the company's top expenses.

joshuamorton 6y ago

reserved a1.large instances are about half the price of OVH's b2-7 instance. a1.xlarge are still cheaper (and larger). So you get more raw compute per dollar on AWS. What?

kuschku 6y ago
If you need that large machines, and are willing to use reserved instances, you'd go with dedis on OVH instead of VMs. Which is significantly cheaper
- joshuamorton 6y ago
  OVH dedicated instances start at about the size of an a1.metal instance, which is ~30% more than the comparable OVH instance, but you can get discounts in various ways. Or you could use t4g.2xlarge, which is cheaper. There's no situation where OVH is 3x cheaper (I mean maybe if bandwidth is your thing, but IDK).
  - fooyc 6y ago
    I'm curious how you make your comparisons. Here is mine: AWS a1.metal: $293 per month for 16 ARM cores, 16GB memory OVH Rise-4 [1]: $131 per month for 16 Intel Xeon cores, 128GB memory, 500Mbit/s And the ARM CPUs on the AWS instances are nowhere near the intel cores here, so maybe this configuration is comparable: OVH Rise-APAC [2]: $57 per month for 4 Intel Xeon cores, 32GB memory [1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-4/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-4/ [2] https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-apac/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/bare-metal/rise/rise-apac/
  - jiofih 6y ago
    Performance of those AWS instances comes nowhere close despite the specs.