Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by hinkley on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:04AM
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> I reduced costs by nearly 90% by throwing several of my old personal machines at the problem and hosting things myself.
This is what's pulling me back toward semi-static websites. Do most of the write traffic on premises and push the results to the cloud.
Only part of your application that needs to be always-on. If you treat the entire thing that way, it'll cost you. I've seen a couple of read-mostly applications that are so divorced from this fact that the paths that should be the cheapest are some of the most expensive, and the ones that happen at the speed of human interaction (eg, editing things) are fast. They are in effect backward and inside-out.
This is what's pulling me back toward semi-static websites. Do most of the write traffic on premises and push the results to the cloud.
Only part of your application that needs to be always-on. If you treat the entire thing that way, it'll cost you. I've seen a couple of read-mostly applications that are so divorced from this fact that the paths that should be the cheapest are some of the most expensive, and the ones that happen at the speed of human interaction (eg, editing things) are fast. They are in effect backward and inside-out.