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Your entire premise is based on a pair of servers - we're talking about fortune 500s. I'll ignore for a second the fact that $20k/month in server spend for a p
by tw04 3y ago
Your entire premise is based on a pair of servers - we're talking about fortune 500s. I'll ignore for a second the fact that $20k/month in server spend for a pair of servers to be database+web is grossly overpriced, even at LIST, which no fortune 500 ever comes close to paying.
All of the "and you don't get all these other services" is just a red herring because, again, we're talking about a fortune 500 that isn't building their services on a pair of servers. They buy racks at a time, at minimum, and unless they're grossly oversizing what they're buying, will have better performance per-dollar all-in, including the people cost and the surrounding infrastructure cost, to say nothing of the egress bandwidth because you know, their customers aren't just other AWS servers...
- fragmede 3y agoI'm not sure where you're getting $20k/month for on-prem from. The number in my post for on-prem for a pair of servers, which is grossly underestimated, was $1,130/mo, amortized. Still, $1M in servers, over 5 years is $200k/yr, or $16k/month, not including hosting costs for that size of a system. Equinix is the gold standard, but they're what one would call expensive. Mind throwing out some numbers you think are realistic for "racks at a time"?