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A hyperscaler (or a cloud providers in general) does not only sell you compute in terms of a compute node but rather in compute as a service. There are some val
by c0balt 2y ago
A hyperscaler (or a cloud providers in general) does not only sell you compute in terms of a compute node but rather in compute as a service. There are some value adds, like e.g., AWS cloud services, but on a pure compute level you pay for elasticity and reliability. A comparison between a cloud provider and your homelab also needs to account for connectivity, which likely is in strong favor (latency/ reliability) of a cloud provider or DC compared to a office or home.
- Spooky23 2y agoAbsolutely — they add a ton of value. So did IBM… and companies migrated to NT solutions that were half baked because they were cheap. When I can get the equivalent of a Mac Mini in a super cheap price point… you’re going to have opportunities to attack those stratospheric cloud margins.
- fpoling 2y agoServer hardware is reliable. For connectivity price-wise I think the sweet spot presently is to host own hardware in the data center and have a system administrator that lives not far away. I worked before for a company that was doing things like that while having millions of active users. It costed them at least 5 times less then it would be with a cloud provider. And then when they got a better deal with another data center the migration was not much more complex then moving server boxes in a van and changing ip addresses for load balancers.