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here's a hint - it's nowhere near close in cost to a bare metal build, at least not in my experience. We run a small clustered database across 8 nodes. Total c
by philjohn 12y ago
here's a hint - it's nowhere near close in cost to a bare metal build, at least not in my experience.
We run a small clustered database across 8 nodes. Total cost for the hardware was ~ $3000 per node. Cost for a comparable node in EC2 per month? $1500. Even with co-lo costs for power and bandwidth, and buying 10gige switches it's far cheaper for us to host it in house than it is to use EC2.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoHow about the cost of bricks and mortar? The cost of an administrator? The cost of spares and disaster recovery? Sure the purchase cost looks good, but what about the total cost of ownership?
- lucian1900 12y agoIt's still tiny compared to AWS, which is really expensive. That doesn't mean it's not useful, but it's still tens of times more expensive than using your own hardware.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoOften total cost of ownership is about the same as the equipment cost. So they start to look comparable actually.
- lucian1900 12y agoThat's not what I've found. Even just renting dedicated physical machines has been significantly cheaper overall.
- micro_cam 12y agoFormer engineer on large research grants (in the us) here. At least in the US a lot of those recurring costs are covered by the standard overhead your institution tacks onto all grants for administrative and facilities costs so you buy a bunch of machines with extended warranties (which should be longer then the terms of most grants) and that covers almost all of your costs. Once they go out of warranty you either use them until they die, scrounge for funds to keep them going or hopefully get a new grant. Also, things are changing, but it is/was hard to ear mark funds for the cloud in a grant so spending the money up front was often what needed to happen.