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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by chmod775 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:59PM (#25269834)
Running my site on dedicated servers costs me $500 a month, running it on AWS would cost me about $20,000 a month (probably just for the egress traffic alone).

I could hire four system administrators for that money to look after each of my four dedicated servers full time.

On top of that you first need to learn AWS. That thing is complicated - but I can set up a dedicated server in minutes because it's indistinguishable from my development environment.

I joke that dedicated servers are only expensive if your time and money are worthless. Because AWS is going to eat both.

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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by busterarm on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:38PM (#25272991)
How much of that egress traffic would be saved by using a CDN?
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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by smarx007 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:42AM (#25277314)
Can you please explain how would this reduce cost? 1TB of egress on EC2 is $90 and on CloudFront is $85. Or are you suggesting to use something like BunnyCDN with $5/TB instead of AWS services?
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