News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by jedberg on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:25PM (#25268068)
These calculations never account for capital overhead of having spares on hand. That cost is part of what you pay for on Amazon. If the hardware breaks on Amazon, you just switch hardware.

If hardware breaks in your datacenter, it's an emergency and you better have spare capacity or extra hardware laying around.

Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by Patrick-STH on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:30PM (#25268158)
We include in our "Hardware Costs" having extra node and spares. For example, we keep a full spare node in the DC as well as spares.