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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by sgtfrankieboy on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:29AM (#23101213)
Engineers cost $130,000/month? Thats a fulltime salary for 14 network engineers (salary from Indeed).

There is no way you need that many for maintaining a fleet of 50 CPUs (chance is that in OPs case they got duel socket servers as well).

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by HelloNurse on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:54AM (#23101965)
On the other hand, you also need to pay engineers, and rather senior ones, to monitor and upgrade cloud solutions. They are just less visible: typically an extra duty for "devops" programmers and project managers rather than dedicated server farm staff.
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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by kaydub on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:13AM (#23102564)
$130,000 a month is not 14 network engineers. Salary is not the full cost of an employee to the business.
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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by kitotik on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:56PM (#23106776)
Even fully loaded it should cover at least 8-9 engineers.
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