The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox

Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by taneq on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:28PM (#27322068)

Not my experience but ymmv (and clearly has).

> You can hardly find old used servers for less than 1000$

I picked up a second hand Dell PowerEdge 610 with 96GB of RAM for $400 AU, it's overkill by a large factor for what I need but damn. Either I was super lucky or servers aren't (weren't?) expensive.

> You can get that for less than 5$ a month pocket change and host it

Until you actually use it and then it ramps up rapidly to the point where you'd be far better off just buying a server.

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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by tatersolid on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:02AM (#27332316)

Good luck getting spares, patched BIOS/firmware, patched DRAC, or anything else resembling support for that old Dell in a timely fashion.

And good luck selling to enterprises when the vulnerability scanner lights up like a Christmas tree with critical and un-patchable flaws on your switches/routers/UPS/PDUs/storage arrays/servers/door locks/cooling system/fire suppression/cameras. Double for the DR site. Because you need all that stuff, and you have to maintain it all 24x7 which means lots of salaries.

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