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A comment on Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud?.

Re:Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud? by hga on Saturday October 02, 2010 @06:17PM (#1751492)
Well ... isn't the question more "Will $40K of IBM and VMWare kit in our hands be (significantly) more reliable than Amazon's services?"

For your purposes, including scheduled downtime.

Also factor into the cost of the time it will take your people to learn how to make your systems on EC2 reliable enough.

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Re:Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud? by flannell on Saturday October 02, 2010 @06:50PM (#1751566)
I think that's an interesting point. However, I do have to consider running sensitive performance data running on equipment we don't control or host. So, is it wise to run customers data on kit we don't own or host?
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