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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by notreallyserio on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:57AM (#29552192)
That $600 figure doesn't include the minimum in-house 5 person staff + 1 manager necessary to run a 24x7 high-9s operation that could run operations such as live-migrating workloads to standby systems in order to fix faulty hardware. Additionally that same $96k could be used to run your compute in multiple datacenters. Back of the napkin math suggests that it'd be a wash once you expand to only three DCs.

I understand it was a startup and may not have needed high-uptime ops from day 1, but a lot of organizations do, and the cost is not that dissimilar.

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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by bsenftner on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:53PM (#29554748)
Yes, it was a startup, with a staff of two. Once we had the cluster up, self monitoring, and rotating on command it is literally a half day a week to maintain the entire setup. The hardware firewall was our best investment, as it load balanced while fending off significant DDoS attacks from hackers. It also is entirely required to use an experienced network engineer for such a task. Far too many people try to wing this, and that's where all the publicized horror stories arise.
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