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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by riku_iki on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:14PM (#25267940)
It also depends on how computationally intensive your application is, AWS premium can be higher than labor cost if you need large scale data crunching.
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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by heipei on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:20PM (#25268014)
Or if you need to egress a lot of data to the Internet. Or send a lot of data between different AZs. Or between Regions. Or anywhere really. Plus now you have to get a PhD in AWS Billing first: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1155838435065655296/pho... and https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1172239124251709449/pho...
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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by Rantenki on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:18PM (#25267978)
That's definitely true. It still makes sense to run your own AI/ML servers on-prem if you're saturating some $20k/each GPU boxes, for example.

But ... most web applications are still IO bound, and labour is surprisingly expensive.

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