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Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted? by chc on Saturday February 11, 2012 @09:22PM (#3580896)
You seem to be saying "In my imagination, their empirical observations are wrong." What you're saying could theoreticlly happen, but that doesn't mean it actually happens in real life.
Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted? by barrkel on Saturday February 11, 2012 @10:11PM (#3580985)
You seem to be replying to a comment that exists in your imagination.

When targeting an environment where CPU usage is cheaper than a 30GB hash table, I'll choose the CPU usage. It's very simple. I am not actually commenting on anyone's empirical observations, theoretical, imagined, or otherwise.