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“If you move off the clouds” can be very expensive. You now need a globally distributed fleet of servers at different providers and ops and administrative manpo
by jupp0r 4y ago
“If you move off the clouds” can be very expensive. You now need a
globally distributed fleet of servers at different providers and ops and administrative manpower to make sure bills get paid and servers get patched and audited.
- jhugo 4y agoYes, it can be expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as paying per-GiB rates to a cloud for your traffic (which itself is nowhere near as expensive as paying a cloud's rates for compute if you try to do decode/encode in the cloud). If we are talking about doing realtime video at large scale, we can assume that there is good ops competency in-house. If not, honestly, what are you doing? Managing fleets of servers across several of the "automation-friendly-but-not-cloud" providers using modern tools is not difficult for some moderately-expensive-but-not-as-expensive-as-cloud-services ops engineers.