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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by brianwawok on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:13PM (#15767828)
Yes because buying a stick of memory from Best Buy is ALMOST the same thing as hosting a sever in a cloud data center with an slice of an entire computer, redundant power, redundant network, and administration baked in. It is soo insane that every time we have a post, and someone compares hosting a computer in their garage with AWS. This may be a new record though, comparing hosting with buying a stick of memory at best buy.
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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by tylerhou on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:47PM (#15813320)
Yes, because when I'm hosting a server to play Minecraft with a few friends I need redundant power, network, and administration. It's not as if I could just go to Best Buy, buy another stick of RAM, shove it into my decently spec'd desktop, port forward to a self hosted server, and get 99% of my necessary performance for a tenth of the cost (over a year of operation). Plus I don't have to return the RAM to Best Buy after I'm done with it.

Because casually hosting a Minecraft server is ALMOST the same thing as hosting a SaaS which needs 5 nines of reliability.

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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by throwaway2048 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:25PM (#15767895)
Its not exactly a controversial statement that AWS carries a massive premium on stuff like RAM.
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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by brianwawok on Thursday November 23, 2017 @05:53PM (#15768357)
Great, and a airplane flight from Chicago to New York City caries a premium on the price of a gallon of gas. Please tell me how this means it is a reason to complain about the price of airline tickets?
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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by throwaway2048 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @07:18PM (#15768733)
Your analogies do nothing but confuse the issue, AWS is vastly more expensive that comparable connectivity and reundancy with colocated, dedicated or even virtualized instances in comparison to other providers, at all but the smallest scale, especially in terms of ram.
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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by brianwawok on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:00PM (#15781749)
You are comparing apples to oranges. Look at the list of services you can spin up with 1 click at AWS. Now go to your little rent-a-server provider with a $49 a month server. Tell me how you add RDS / multi region LB / S3 / IoT / blah blah blah with 1 click to your $49 rent a server?
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