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As much as I like to have something else leading this market other than AWS (I hate them for several reasons, but insensitive billing plans, cockpit like interf

As much as I like to have something else leading this market other than AWS (I hate them for several reasons, but insensitive billing plans, cockpit like interface and lock-in services are the top ones), I'd also hate to see Cloudflare become another AWS. Are there any tech disruption that will make computing resources affordable for solopreneurs/startups as they once used to be. For the past decade I've seen a very slow gradual decrease in the affordability of cloud computing cost. I trust WASM and WASI will have a huge effect in democratizing the market but I'm not sure yet.

mooreds 5y ago
> I've seen a very slow gradual decrease in the affordability of cloud computing cost. What do you mean by "cloud computing cost"? Digital Ocean will sell you a VPS for $5/month with 1TB bandwidth included. There are tons of hosting providers that offer something similar. These prices don't seem higher than they were 10 years ago. What am I missing?
- lewisjoe 5y ago
  Yes but try running a couple of servers with a decent amount of ram say 4GB and we’d notice how the cost goes exponential. Point being running a couple of servers with a decent ram and a decent amount of storage shouldn’t cost 50$. It should be say, 7$. I know the ask is too much. Just want to see if there’d be any fundamental tech breakthrough to make something like this happen.
  - BenjiWiebe 5y ago
    A Linode VPS with 4GB RAM costs $20/month, 4 times more then the 1GB instance. Dedicated VM is $30/month for 4GB, but that's the smallest so can't compare there. But that's only a little bit more than the shared vps, so I'd consider it pretty reasonable. A few years ago I couldn't find a $5/month option. The cheapest Linode was $10/month. EDIT checked Wayback Machine...10 years ago, a 512MB RAM Linode cost $19.95/month.
  - wongarsu 5y ago
    Hetzner cloud has nodes with 4GB RAM for $5.70. For $40 you get a dedicated server 64GB RAM and 2 512GB SSDs and 1 Gbit/s unmetered uplink. Servers are incredibly affordable. AWS isn't because they don't have to be (giving startups $100k credits and coaching them on how to achieve the strongest lock-in works well for them)

mooreds 5y ago

> I've seen a very slow gradual decrease in the affordability of cloud computing cost. What do you mean by "cloud computing cost"? Digital Ocean will sell you a VPS for $5/month with 1TB bandwidth included. There are tons of hosting providers that offer something similar. These prices don't seem higher than they were 10 years ago. What am I missing?

lewisjoe 5y ago
Yes but try running a couple of servers with a decent amount of ram say 4GB and we’d notice how the cost goes exponential. Point being running a couple of servers with a decent ram and a decent amount of storage shouldn’t cost 50$. It should be say, 7$. I know the ask is too much. Just want to see if there’d be any fundamental tech breakthrough to make something like this happen.
- BenjiWiebe 5y ago
  A Linode VPS with 4GB RAM costs $20/month, 4 times more then the 1GB instance. Dedicated VM is $30/month for 4GB, but that's the smallest so can't compare there. But that's only a little bit more than the shared vps, so I'd consider it pretty reasonable. A few years ago I couldn't find a $5/month option. The cheapest Linode was $10/month. EDIT checked Wayback Machine...10 years ago, a 512MB RAM Linode cost $19.95/month.
- wongarsu 5y ago
  Hetzner cloud has nodes with 4GB RAM for $5.70. For $40 you get a dedicated server 64GB RAM and 2 512GB SSDs and 1 Gbit/s unmetered uplink. Servers are incredibly affordable. AWS isn't because they don't have to be (giving startups $100k credits and coaching them on how to achieve the strongest lock-in works well for them)