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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by esjeon on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:13AM (#36174194)
3 TB a day is roughly 36 MB/s, so yeah it's pretty much doable. 10 Gbps connection is already common, and it's even possible on 1 Gbps connection if people don't mind some saturation during peak time.

> People often learn how expensive "the cloud" is the hard way.

Yeah, people really go a long way around just to get back to on-premise and colocation...

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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by vasco on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:08AM (#36174677)
> Yeah, people really go a long way around just to get back to on-premise and colocation.

Outside of pet projects I'm not sure many people are doing that, but happy to read any research. From all I've seen the numbers show an overwhelming move to the cloud, and a few grumpy cats annoyed that the pricing structure is different.

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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by BiteCode_dev on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:41AM (#36174858)
37signals enters the chat
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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by WJW on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:53AM (#36175195)
I've read the article from DHH he makes some decent arguments, but as I see it that article is mostly notable because most people don't self-host. At least in my corner of the tech scene (ie EU startups) there are probably hundreds of companies hosting in the cloud for every company choosing to self-host and I haven't seen a shift in that trend yet. If anything it seems to be shifting more towards the cloud.
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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by BiteCode_dev on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:03AM (#36175247)
True, the wake up call is mostly in articles and social medias, not in the trend, in the same way most people use Windows despite most technical writers using Mac or Linux.

Personally I've been self-hosting forever, and that's the only reason I could stay afloat. There is a whole category of business that is simply not profitable if you use the cloud.

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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by joshspankit on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:03AM (#36185287)
I may be wrong, but I feel like “startup” no longer means “bootstrapped for the lowest amount possible” (the model that created sv) and now means “vc-backed for the lowest amount of dev-effort possible”.

In the latter case on-prem is a distraction

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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by supriyo-biswas on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:11AM (#36174992)
https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-...

https://37signals.com/podcast/leaving-the-cloud-part-2/

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Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C... by insanitybit on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:28AM (#36177418)
AWS is a public company, we can see that the above posters are wrong pretty easily.
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