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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by srtjstjsj on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:20PM (#24975006)
Are you claiming that you knew exactly how powerful you needed your machines to be, before you launched? Or are your machines running at 25% utilization which AWS would charge substantially less for?
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by bsenftner on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:41PM (#24975829)
I'm not making any such claim. I'm saying I built a 24-7 available physical 17-server cluster to operate my startup's needs. I had more capacity than I needed, but at the same expense thru AWS I'd not have enough to operate. At less than the expense of one AWS month, I had my entire environment owned outright. How is that difficult to understand?
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