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The complexity of trying to figure out how much servers will cost, or should cost, or could cost if I really played with spreadsheets for a few hours-- is what
by unoti 14y ago
The complexity of trying to figure out how much servers will cost, or should cost, or could cost if I really played with spreadsheets for a few hours-- is what drove me to Rackspace a few years ago. Occasionally someone will tell me that I could save money by going to EC2 and doing something like bidding at a price that's below this or that and something or other... but the whole thing is just annoying to me. Server prices have never been a significant part of my costs compared to other things, so all the game playing is simply tiresome to me. It's simply not practical to project your costs of deploying an application if you use Amazon's hardware and a couple of their services. Am I the only one that feels this way?
- papsosouid 14y agoI don't know if anyone else feels that way, but when I looked at pricing amazon was cheaper period. Not cheaper if you do X and Y and Z, just cheaper always no matter what. Rackspace was insanely expensive in comparison.
- unoti 14y agoI just started a stopwatch, and decided to try to figure out what you're talking about. After working on an online price calculator with more fields on it than a 1040EZ tax form, and then getting 2/3 of the way through a whitepaper PDF on how pricing works, and trying to figure out what kind of instances I'd need, I stopped at the 10 minute mark. I'm going to go resume work on my software now, but I expect I'm not alone in this. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, and there's an easier way to do this. And I'm certain that if I spent $10k a year on servers, I'd take this more seriously.
- papsosouid 14y agoThat just seems like a poor attempt at trolling. "I have to figure out what server I need" is a problem with amazon? I just double checked, and the process is literally identical between amazon and rackspace: 1. pick an instance 2. see the hourly price 3. multiply it by 24 x 30 Which part of this is a problem, and why is it only a problem for you with amazon?