Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
by yummyfajitas on Saturday February 11, 2012 @10:23PM
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This is probably also why EC2's High Memory instance types don't actually overcharge you for ram.
Consider a double extra large high memory ec2 instance - it costs you $6093/year for 4 cores and 34gb ram.
On softlayer, a dedicated quad core xeon processor with 32gb ram costs about $12,600/year. I imagine the CPU speed and disk IO on softlayer is better than the EC2 instance, but for many workloads (read: memcached/redis/giant in-memory calculations) that doesn't matter so much.
Consider a double extra large high memory ec2 instance - it costs you $6093/year for 4 cores and 34gb ram.
On softlayer, a dedicated quad core xeon processor with 32gb ram costs about $12,600/year. I imagine the CPU speed and disk IO on softlayer is better than the EC2 instance, but for many workloads (read: memcached/redis/giant in-memory calculations) that doesn't matter so much.