One: run the numbers on the dozens of cloud nodes you mentioned. Is that really cheaper than renting some servers in a colo?
Second: how much time would they have spent rolling all of the data integrity, reporting, etc. features they'd have needed to add. I'm inclined to take them at their word when they say this was safer and cheaper given their resources.
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
by nemothekid on Monday April 10, 2017 @03:41AM
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>I'm inclined to take them at their word when they say this was safer and cheaper given their resources.
I never meant to claim that cloud was safer and cheaper. What I meant was, for the majority of operations, staying in the cloud with some distributed setup is likely more feasible that moving to CoLo (see GitLab).
While for many developers, NoSQL might be overkill - Stackoverflow is a bad example. If you were any fast growing startup in the cloud, and you wanted to go the SO route it would have meant going CoLo. SO has set of machines with a nearly a terabyte of RAM - GCE doesn't even offer cloud machines with the same specs.
And even then their setup is far more fiscally expensive than something you could get done with 20 cloud nodes on some NoSQL solution.