How We Saved $132k a Year With an IT Infrastructure Audit

Re:How We Saved $132k a Year With an IT Infrastructure Audit by latch on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:20PM (#11439785)

Pick a smaller ec2 instance, and I'll find a comparable dedicated server that yields a similar price/perf gain (true, it might be more pronounced on the high end...).

Your two side notes tell me that you're conflating dedicated and colocated hosting. I can see now why you think EC2 saves you devops if you think colocated is your only choice.

I'm talking about dedicated hosting, so, no, I don't need to worry about electricity, setup time (not as much as you mean anyways), hardware failure, network access or rackspace. This is an extremely common model.

The price that I quoted I just got quickly from Hivelocity.com (1). The price is actually $300, not $400...I'm not affiliated with them at all. They've been in business for longer than AWS has existed. I could have gotten a similar price from a thousand companies.

(1) https://store.hivelocity.net/product/125/customize/1/

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Re:How We Saved $132k a Year With an IT Infrastructure Audit by throwaway2016a on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @01:57PM (#11440452)

You are right, I was thinking colo more than dedicated.

Also, I'm not sure if everyone knows, you can get dedicated from AWS now. It is expensive, though.

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