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Also physical security, power, physical rack cost, networking, salaries to manage everything, and all those other hidden costs
by primax 5y ago
Also physical security, power, physical rack cost, networking, salaries to manage everything, and all those other hidden costs
- b112 5y agoThere are no "hidden costs". They're well known. Factor them all in, and "the cloud" is 1000s to millions of times more expensive than bare metal. I've seen people pay $100k/month, for services which could run on an $140/month bare metal server failover pair. Meanwhile, people still spend enormous resources managing "the cloud", writing code to deploy to the cloud, dealing with edge cases in the cloud. There are no savings, time wise, management wise, or money wise, with the cloud. You are paying for ignorance.
- gscott 5y agoI was watching a video by Neil Patel and he pays 130k a month to Aws for one website, UberSuggest. Now that is a guy with money to burn. He could put that on bare metal and use the savings to buy a hotel and food for the homeless.
- goodpoint 5y agoHidden costs? I've been in companies with their own datacenters from tiny to enormous. The costs were very clearly spelled out and always lower that SaaS. Why do people here think that cloud companies are charities? The cost of their hardware leasing, personnel, electricity, building management, insurance... it is all paid by the customer. Plus a beefy profit margin. All paid by you.