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I couldn't find mention of comparative hardware/license/support costs for the on-prem servers. Is there that kind of resource out there readily available?

• BizarroLand 4y ago
  It depends on the server but if they're self-hosting they could be looking at ~$100k per server if they go towards the high end or as little as $3-$10k/server for low or mid grade hardware. They mentioned 300 servers, so I would assume that there was somewhere between a $500k-$5m upfront outlay for their hardware which would need to be refreshed every 3-5 years, which is a huge range but since they didn't disclose specs it is hard to correctly estimate. For instance, many of us could probably put together a decent cluster of used circa 2012-2017 servers in a rack for $5-$10 grand (not counting storage) which would be enough to run any small or startup business needs for thousands of users. Also, since this text was IMHO from a dev's perspective and not from a sysadmins, there's a good chance that it could have been individual docker containers inside of VMs running on less physical server. In that case, a single $100k 16x blade server with a few hundred terabytes of storage would probably be more than enough to start and provide a good base line for expansion, so reading back over it I would guess they spent about $250k in hardware to offline from AWS