Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays
by tluyben2 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:23PM
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> very small business services
Which accounts for almost all hosting and startups. Most startups will never see more than a handful of users and yet microservices, lamdba, nosql etc must be deployed because ‘scaling and failover’, wasting their own and investers’ money for nothing. Only a small % will ever need any scaling and failover.
If aws were truly cheaper, we would be using it for everything; currently we mix which is far cheaper. Anything not fail critical that benefits from fixed price cpu/gpu, bandwidth and storage we host traditionally. We and our clients saved fortunes over the years. And for clients or projects that do not need such heavy lifting as aws, we simply host traditionally completely.
Which accounts for almost all hosting and startups. Most startups will never see more than a handful of users and yet microservices, lamdba, nosql etc must be deployed because ‘scaling and failover’, wasting their own and investers’ money for nothing. Only a small % will ever need any scaling and failover.
If aws were truly cheaper, we would be using it for everything; currently we mix which is far cheaper. Anything not fail critical that benefits from fixed price cpu/gpu, bandwidth and storage we host traditionally. We and our clients saved fortunes over the years. And for clients or projects that do not need such heavy lifting as aws, we simply host traditionally completely.