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I hate to be the bean counter, but what was the true cost ultimately? As you and your team's cost as resources. It's nice that you ended up with a provider agn
by teh_klev 5y ago
I hate to be the bean counter, but what was the true cost ultimately? As you and your team's cost as resources.
It's nice that you ended up with a provider agnostic capability to deploy anywhere, but none of that was free in terms of ownership costs to get there.
- zamadatix 5y agoSee this older sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950842
- vidarh 5y agoI was the only person doing the migration work and setting up the HA setup and documenting it for them to take over. My fee for setting it up and doing it accounted for that 20x difference. Hetzner in the end was far cheaper for them to run including the devops work they contracted to me. I effectively got paid to reduce my future earnings from them. But that was fine; when I was doing contracting, that was a big part of my pitch - that I'd help drive down their costs and pay for myself many times over - if people were in doubt I'd offer to take payment as a percent of what they saved. So, no, it wasn't free, but it saved them far more money than it cost them, both the initial transition and in ongoing total cost of operation. In fact, my first project for them was to do extensive cost-modelling of their development and operations.
- teh_klev 5y agoAh, now I understand. Sorry it hadn't joined up in my brain you were providing this as a service as a third party. Thanks for the explanation.