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Always fun to see people compare bare metal costs to actual running cost of cloud infrastructure. For some reason such advocates always think the system adminis
by adflux 5y ago
Always fun to see people compare bare metal costs to actual running cost of cloud infrastructure. For some reason such advocates always think the system administrators work for free, the network will always work, the machine will never break, the machine will not need to be replicated etc etc etc
- berkes 5y agoTo drive home an argument a co-owner of an old hosting company I had, calculated the costs for replacing a single HDD. Everything from buying the HDD, to his hours to the parking ticket at the data-center. He convinced me and the point was clear: a single failing HDD would costs us more than renting similar computing power for over 6 years. We had two such failing HDDs in three years prior.