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There's also the an opportunity cost to consider if your actual demand turns out to be higher than projected and you're not able to scale up to meet it. I thin
by csears 13y ago
There's also the an opportunity cost to consider if your actual demand turns out to be higher than projected and you're not able to scale up to meet it.
I think we'll see more companies using a hybrid model where you can run your steady-state workload level on dedicated gear but with the ability burst into a cloud to handle peaks and flash demand.
- Gravityloss 13y agoYou can have considerable reserve capability and it's still cheaper than the cloud. Also renting dedicated servers can be really fast.
- nasalgoat 13y agoMy experience with cloud overflow configurations is that it never works as nicely as you expect, due to a lot of the drawbacks of cloud infrastructure such as variable performance and latency issues.