Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w...
by taylodl on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:49AM
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Exactly. Put that Mac Mini in your data center with redundant power, redundant networking and complete failover to another data center. I've been there and done that - it ain't cheap. Your rack enclosure with redundant power sources and Fibre Channel Adapters is going to run you more than the Mac Mini itself. Add in the need for high availability and failover and yeah, you're looking at some real money. When you look at the total cost of putting a Mac Mini in your data center, and not just the cost of a Mac Mini itself, then you'll see this is a good deal.
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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w...
by delfinom on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:51AM
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The fuck are you doing that a Mac Mini needs failover? At that point, dear lord have mercy on that dev team and whatever horrible ideas management have pushed.
Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w...
by taylodl on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:01AM
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Paying a team of iOS developers $150/hr to create apps. The Mac Mini is their CI/CD server - if it goes down then they're toast. A team costing $1,500/hr sits idle because I'm too cheap to pay $25.99/day to keep them productive? That doesn't make any sense.