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The other article listed a $100,000 price-point per controller. I guess at that point it depends on the size of the start-up.
by druiid 14y ago
The other article listed a $100,000 price-point per controller. I guess at that point it depends on the size of the start-up.
- Swannie 14y agoPlus a per-server charge after the initial 5(?). The Register article was questioning the cost of the additional server license (5 - 10k per node), but having seen a lot of the pricing out there, it seems inline to be a little cheaper than what the big-boys will charge for their management platforms (without the services). Honestly, if I was CTO at a start-up: OpenStack, a stack of cheap machines, maxed with memory and disks (if required), Open vSwitch, a standard 48 port 10gbps switch (though you can probably get away with 24 ports), open to all staff. Setup of OpenStack may take a little longer, and it won't scale without serious work, but it will be cheaper and easier to control costs than spinning up AWS.
- druiid 14y agoOh for sure. OpenStack is going to be way cheaper in the near AND long term than AWS, if you know what your growth rate will look like. I've said it time and time again on here when 'Cloud' stuff comes up, that you MUST as a company do the math if 'Cloud' or in-house services (Cloud?) will be more reasonable. I think the main pain-point that is being fixed here is that initial setup of OpenStack. I've been doing this stuff for many, many years and it give ME a headache. It truly is that bad (and deploying with Puppet or Chef only lessens the pain while adding different layers of complexity).