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What I don't get is that hardware has gotten so cheap that even a $5 dollar server instance should get you 50GB and 2GB RAM. Sure, CPU cores are expensive and y
by imtringued 2y ago
What I don't get is that hardware has gotten so cheap that even a $5 dollar server instance should get you 50GB and 2GB RAM. Sure, CPU cores are expensive and you end up sharing them with other people, but RAM and storage? I recently upgraded to a 2TB NVMe SSD for a hundred dollars, which is two years worth of cloud fees, but all you get is 10 GB.
- supertrope 2y agoCPU cycles can be more easily over-committed than RAM. CPU load is bursty. Memory usage is much more constant. Cloud typically bundles very high reliability using multiples of the nominal capacity in enterprise SSDs. If the entry-level product gave you much more it would cannibalize higher priced products.