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> That's how they remain so low cost, they skimp on everything they can, like Ryanair. That's also why you go with a real cloud as soon as you raise enough fun
by 908B64B197 4y ago
> That's how they remain so low cost, they skimp on everything they can, like Ryanair.
That's also why you go with a real cloud as soon as you raise enough funding.
- capableweb 4y agoUnless you want to be cost-effective and have the expertise, then bare-metal is the way to go. As things seem right now, companies are gonna get a lot better at being cost-effective and cloud services are not.
- bayindirh 4y agoI don't whether you're also including "build your own data center" inside bare-metal, but a data center has many moving parts. Keeping servers up and running is the easiest of all.
- Nextgrid 4y agoIf a fire happens every 20 years then I'll take my chances. It's not like the "real clouds" don't go down either.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoOr have a good DR strategy/a second cheap cloud provider ready, potentially giving you more reliability than a single expensive one (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609 and the horror stories posted in the comments there). Harder if you're heavily relying on the more advanced services with often provider-specific APIs, but I think if you host with OVH you're likely to be primarily renting machines.
- xuki 4y agoYeah, I was affected by another datacenter fire (WebNX Utah). I had hourly back up, everything was back and running on Digital Ocean within an hour. There are reasons to use AWS/Google Cloud/Azure but reliability is not it.
- shiftpgdn 4y agoThe “real cloud” you speak of was down for almost 5 full days in 2021.
- jen20 4y agoEach time it came back with all the data present though, unlike this incident.