Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by ashtonkem on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:12AM
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That’s not true though.
By volume, GoDaddy is actually a bigger host than AWS by a factor of 2.
The HN crowd vastly overestimates how big AWS is compared to less sexy options.
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by judge2020 on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:36AM
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The difference is that AWS hosts big clients and makes big bucks in return. Godaddy's hosting had 300m in revenue[0], while AWS did nearly 13 billion[1].
0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/godaddy-q3-revenue-beats-expec....
1: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/aws-earnings-q4-2020.html#Bo....
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by ashtonkem on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:27AM
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It's definitely true that AWS customers spend more than Godaddy customers, for sure. But I still reject the idea that you have to use AWS (or will in the near future). There are literally hundreds of hosting providers out there, thousands if you include places that will run your own hardware. In my own career only half of my jobs have depended on AWS in any capacity; the rest used other hosting providers or self hosted.
In a very real way, a founder today has more options for hosting than they do for catered lunch.
I'm old enough that racking my own boxes and hosting everything myself is both natural and easy (and cheaper and faster).
But working with plenty of young developers, most don't have any exposure or interest in setting up anything other than AWS services tied together.
So like it or not (I don't) we're rushing towards a world where AWS (maaybe GCP, mostly not) is the only way to build something.
It's good to consider the implications of this.