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I'm the total opposite of a server guy, but I think your tests may be in some way flawed. At work we have a site that got high traffic for a few months on a ded

I'm the total opposite of a server guy, but I think your tests may be in some way flawed. At work we have a site that got high traffic for a few months on a dedicated box @ softlayer -- and it keeled over, unable to handle the outgoing data. Moving the site to a EC2 large completely removed the problem. I realize this is completely anecdotal without much detail (well I know the softlayer box runs about $200 a month, so it can't be their worst thing) but it does make me wonder.

cmer 15y ago
That's very odd. James Golick of Fetlife had the opposite experience with Softlayer (link to his video in my post). I currently manage ~40 servers on EC2 and I'm confident that I could get away with just 5 "decent" dedicated boxes. EC2 gets expensive quickly, but most and foremost, managing so many instances is quite a headache.