Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by wheelerwj on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:08AM (#23099627)

24 servers, interesting. That seems like a small enough setup that I would definitely have left it in the cloud. Much more than that and i think it makes sense to start moving to physical servers. But 24 I would have guessed would be cheaper to maintain in EC2.

Are you setup with one or two racks in each location and maybe one full time IT/Sys admin at each location?

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by t0mas88 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:22AM (#23100903)

24 dedicated dual Xeon boxes can easily be comparable to 100 to 200 m5.2xlarge EC2 instances. So it's relatively small but not tiny, you're going to be paying at least 25k / month for that (inc reserved instance discounts)

So if you use a lot of bandwidth on top of it (can be another 25-50k at AWS) this could reach into to levels where it's worth it to hire two devops guys to run your own in combination with some SLA/management agreements with a colo.

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by wheelerwj on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:08AM (#23111879)

I might need to re-look at this. That's much more efficient at an earlier stage than I was expecting. Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by bsenftner on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:00AM (#23102444)

At my own startup we ran 17 colocated servers, each a high compute resource, at an monthly expense of $600, using purchased hardware that cost $55K. That is versus $96K per month that would be the same infrastructure at AWS.

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by wheelerwj on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:07AM (#23111870)

wow, that is substantial.

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