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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by sillysaurus3 on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:55AM (#17524006)
As of 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006

  FreeBSD 10.1
  Nginx 1.7.10
  Racket 6.1.1 with some HN and FreeBSD specific patches.

  2x 3GHz Intel Xeon-IvyBridge (E5-2690-V2-DecaCore)
  8x16GB Kingston 16GB DDR3 2Rx4
  SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+_R1.2A
  Adaptec 71605
  9x 1000GB Western Digital WD RE4
  2x 200GB Smart XceedIOPS SSD
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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by sctb on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:50PM (#17524540)
A minor upgrade these days:

  FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4
  CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz
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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by a012 on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:30PM (#17524373)
This "single box" has a lot of computing units as on AWS EC2.
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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by nostrademons on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:36PM (#17524429)
That should tell you a lot about the price you pay for using AWS.
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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by rhizome on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:54PM (#17528333)
The figure I saw around maybe 2015 was that AWS (maybe Heroku) is 10x more expensive and bare metal is 10x more efficient/faster, lending a 100x difference in price-performance. Both factors are probably larger nowadays.
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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by some_account on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:02AM (#17529200)
It's the convenience and the enormous ecosystem of plug and play services that make AWS do good for point and click building architectures.

You can do all of it locally (except multi zone and multi region reliability) but it would take a lot of configuration, skills and you wouldn't have the same Gui for everything.

AWS is not cheap but companies don't care, because without it, you have to pay to find experts and keep them happy, which is a lot harder.

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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by aaronblohowiak on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:33PM (#17532938)
Those figures are not in line with my understanding.
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Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems by rhizome on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:41PM (#17537251)
I'll try to find the article, I think it might have been Bitnami or Joyent who ran it.

Some older discussion on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165095

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