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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by vidarh on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:41AM (#31012423)
For on prem. Or you put it in a colo, and let someone else deal with those things, and you still pretty much the same cost savings vs. cloud - sometimes more (e.g. if you can pick a colo somewhere with cheaper electricity you can save; if you can pick one somewhere with cheaper land, you can save). Or you move to managed hosting and still bare metal, and stop worrying about the physical servers at all, at loss of some freedom, and still get around 90% of the cost savings vs. cloud.
Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by bsenftner on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:23AM (#31013371)
I had a cabinet at the colo data center that was formerly Enron's data center - super thick pipe to the public Internet, in a data center built to survive nuclear war. I had 17 servers and a Federal Reserve quality hardware firewall, total cost of hardware was about $55K, the colo expense of $600 a month, and my team of two spent perhaps a day a month on maintenance. This was in contrast to $96K per month for the same setup at Amazon.