• Craftkorb@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    To the surprise of no one. Cloud services are convenient and easily scalable - Which makes it cost effective for a lot of work loads. But for all work loads? Of course not!

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      10 months ago

      They barely touched on the time and money spent managing bare metal. I’d imagine that 230k a year is gonna get a big ol dent in it when their assumption of “modern servers make maintenance needs much lower” turns out to be false.

      All for not hosting in AWS but I want to see one of these articles put out actual numbers about what it looks like to run. I want the we are two years into this and have learned X, Y, and Z post. And one that isn’t written by DHH

  • Expensive_Finger_973@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    If you need it fast, or have unpredictable load spikes, then cloud makes sense. If not, then it costs more over time than the on-prem investment,the end.

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    10 months ago

    No mention of software costs, ongoing software and hardware maintenance. There is no cookie cutter answer, it really depends on the specific systems.

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      10 months ago

      They say their monthly op-ex is $5500.

      Our monthly operational expenditure (op-ex), which includes power, cooling, energy, and remote hands (although we seldom use this service), is now approximately $5,500.

  • Ok-Mammoth-7743@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I’m always a little surprised that we talk about NFS and Cloud Native, like gross figures without talking about payroll