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> cheaper in the long term Citation needed :)) There are economies of scale and various optimizations that are just not possible with dedicated machines. Anec
by halflings 3y ago
> cheaper in the long term
Citation needed :)) There are economies of scale and various optimizations that are just not possible with dedicated machines.
Anecdotal evidence: a company I worked in had a dedicated DC with hundreds/thousands of machines that mostly ran SQL queries on petabytes of data (any query would take ~5-30 minutes). Eye-watering budget and whole teams to maintain the cluster...
They switched to GCP/BigQuery, got queries that ran in seconds at a fraction of the budget.
- slimsag 3y agoThe inverse is also true; I don't have to pay Google or AWS to deploy my software to dedicated consumer devices. The user already paid for it.
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- Negitivefrags 3y agoThis anecdote is the opposite of the ones I usually hear. Economies of scale go in the other direction usually.
- taneq 3y agoThose economies are for the cloud provider, not you. The cost to you is set at just less than their best guess at what you think self-hosting will cost you. Cloud hosting only makes sense in a case that your capacity needs are changing rapidly and unpredictably, or the case where you’re so big that the cloud hosting company is effectively a department. Any other time it will almost certainly be cheaper to self host.
- rvnx 3y agoSounds like they could have switched to Clickhouse if they already had the hardware.