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Yep and hardware is only getting cheaper. Better to just buy more drives/chips when you need them.

• jbverschoor 3y ago
  M4.xlarge (m4.xlarge, 4cpu, 16gb, no storage) is about $100 per month. This cpu is 7 years old(slow! and power hungry) and has 36 threads. This means it runs 18 of these instances. The total revenue so far for one cpu is 100x18x12x7 = $150k If used as a spot instance it’s 144/month, so about 200k A standard i9-14700k gen has 32 threads, but it can run 12 of these instances (max 192mem). This CPU will cost you $800. Memory is cheap, so for about 1-2k you’re all set, and have a machine that’s way faster and cheaper. Basically, buy a bunch of NUCs and you’re saving yourself around $1500 per month per NUC. It pays itself back in 1 month Cloud hosting is —insane— Not even touching memory ballooning for mostly idle applications. Lastly, don’t give me reliability s an argument. These were all ephemeral instances that have no storage, so you’ll have to pay for that slow non-nvme storage platform.
  • mr_toad 3y ago
    If you can do it for some much less than Amazon (and all the other cloud vendors), then why don’t you create your own cloud and undercut them?
    • peteradio 3y ago
      Hosting for the world is different than hosting for yourself.
    • makeitdouble 3y ago
      You wouldn't ask people who cook for themselves why they don't open a restaurant to undercut the competition.