Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:50PM
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For a business with growing needs (most people at the point of making the decision), won't they need to go to install more hardware frequently, if nothing else?
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Stackoverflow was run on a few servers (don’t know about how many there are now) http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...
Often you don’t need that much hardware.
Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays
by Patrick-STH on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:55PM
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That may be true. We grow 20-30% Y/Y which is not as big as many other places (but is more than most others in our space.) 20-30% growth we handle with refresh cycles since we have extra capacity.
A lot of businesses aren't growing at breakneck speeds, and with modern cpu/ram setups, are often massively underprovisioned. A very big car rental company you'd know the name of was being run on four servers, and they were only upgraded at EOL (if something broke, Dell had same day or next day service)