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You can always buy some servers to handle your base load, and then get extra cloud instances when needed. If you're running an ecommerce store for example, you
by miki123211 2y ago
You can always buy some servers to handle your base load, and then get extra cloud instances when needed.
If you're running an ecommerce store for example, you could buy some extra capacity from AWS for Christmas and Black Friday, and rely on your own servers exclusively for the rest of the year.
- martinald 2y agoBut the ridiculous egress costs of the big clouds really reduce the feasibility of this. If you have some 'bare metal' boxes in the same city as your cloud instances you are going to be absolutely clobbered with the cost of database traffic from your additional AWS/azure/whatever boxes.
- Nextgrid 2y agoIs database traffic really all that significant in this scenario? I'd expect the bulk of the cost to be the end-user traffic (serving web pages to clients) with database/other traffic to your existing infra a relatively minor line-item?