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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 jacquesm on Sunday October 03, 2010 @12:09PM (#1752937)
It very much depends on the nature of the usage, storage and bandwidth are the big killers for some cloud applications.

For me (live video) the cloud doesn't even get close to being competitive with leased hardware.

1GBit flat rate with 20T of storage goes for about 1200 euros / months, including a quad (or even eight) core machine.

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