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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2... by gscott on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:24AM (#22189573)
I have a friend with a rack of co-located servers I manage. I drive from San Diego to LA where they are located maybe once every 6 months or more. I don't believe I have been to the rack for about a year. The rack with 20mbs of bandwidth costs around $2,500 a month.
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2... by lrem on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:48AM (#22189679)
Did you really mean twenty megabits?
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2... by xchaotic on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:22AM (#22189794)
if it’s unmetered 20mbps I’d happily take that over ingress / egress cost at cloud provider such as AWS
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2... by davedx on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:24AM (#22190066)
Yeah AWS bandwidth egress is extortionate. Digital Ocean is something like 5-7x less expensive. It's ridiculous.
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2... by lrem on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:33AM (#22190100)
That's kind of shocking when compared to European prices. Over a full order of magnitude of difference, comparing to the list price of the first Google result.
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2... by gscott on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:37PM (#22193952)
Yes, not sure of the abbreviation apparently! But 20 megabits.

I like to watch Neil Patel's seo videos on Facebook occasionally and he mentioned for one service he runs he spends over 100k a month on hosting. It blows my mind because he could buy a top end server with dozens of processors and terabytes of ram, co-locate it and at least host some things on it or even turn it into your own cloud hosting server.

Even if a person bought 2 over-the-top servers for 30k each, paid around $2,500 a month for hosting it would save huge money.

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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2... by ChrisCinelli on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:22AM (#22190060)
20 motherboards?
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