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My response to this, is that there are endless ways, and places to do this. There are far more colos, people that will rent you a rack, and bandwidth, than VPS
by b112 3y ago
My response to this, is that there are endless ways, and places to do this.
There are far more colos, people that will rent you a rack, and bandwidth, than VPS types. And you can rent servers too, instead of buying your own.
Colo is literally 10000x cheaper than many AWS deployments. I've seen million dollar bills drop to tens of thousands per year.
And of course, you can always deploy in house, in your own server room.
- bagels 3y agoSure, colo can be cheaper. What kind of infrastructure was this? Or was this just bandwidth bills?
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- dilyevsky 3y agoI’ve done some modeling and for our high cpu, high egress, medium storage multi-million $ a year deploy it was 70-90% lower cost than cloud when you factor in amortized cost of boxes, remote hands, transit etc. Pretty substantial but not 10000x ;)
- iot_devs 3y agoWas this comparing AWS on demand pricing or the 3 years plan?
- dilyevsky 3y ago3 year plan. Basically for colos you also get it cheaper if you sign for 3y so that’s more apples to apples. Equipment “annual” cost was calculated over 5-7 year lifetime - I didnt go as far as calculating how much you could recover if you pawned it after 3 years…
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