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Any estimate how many additional hours you spend maintaining these systems vs. what you would if you hosted on AWS?

• imbriaco 13y ago
  If it's just three servers, I'd be astonished if any meaningful amount of time was spent maintaining the hardware after the initial installation. You have to maintain the operating system in either case, so this is a clear win for dedicated machines. Everybody forgets the E part of EC2. If your workload is not elastic, or is very small, it's incredibly likely that EC2 is not the most cost effective solution.
  • mh- 13y ago
    also, seemingly everyone neglects to calculate these comparisons based on EC2's reserved (heavy utilization) pricing. this brings the hard costs much closer. (but doesn't close the gap entirely.)
    • imbriaco 13y ago
      Indeed, and you can almost certainly buy a server for the cost of the reservation. Don't get me wrong, EC2 is an amazingly useful platform and it has been a game changer for our industry in a lot of ways. Improved hosting economics isn't generally one of them.
• thinkcomp 13y ago
  I'd have to maintain the software stack either way.