Re:Startups should run on cloud providers
by jacquesm on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:00AM
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Not all startups should run on cloud providers. For many it makes sense but as soon as you have
- a very large amount of storage
- a lot of data transfer
- a lot of computation (for instance, on GPUs)
Then it could be a very worthwhile exercise to figure out what the trade-off in cost vs convenience will be if you decide to roll your own. For some projects the cloud absolutely makes sense, if you have just a few servers and the total cloud hosting bill would be a small fraction of what you'd pay a team of sysadmins to keep things up and running you are probably fine going with the cloud.
But if you are going to spend thousands or 10's of thousands of $ per month on cloud hosting then make sure that your resources are allocated properly.
- a very large amount of storage
- a lot of data transfer
- a lot of computation (for instance, on GPUs)
Then it could be a very worthwhile exercise to figure out what the trade-off in cost vs convenience will be if you decide to roll your own. For some projects the cloud absolutely makes sense, if you have just a few servers and the total cloud hosting bill would be a small fraction of what you'd pay a team of sysadmins to keep things up and running you are probably fine going with the cloud.
But if you are going to spend thousands or 10's of thousands of $ per month on cloud hosting then make sure that your resources are allocated properly.