Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem...
by tw04 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:35PM
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Your entire premise is based on a pair of servers - we're talking about fortune 500s. I'll ignore for a second the fact that $20k/month in server spend for a pair of servers to be database+web is grossly overpriced, even at LIST, which no fortune 500 ever comes close to paying.
All of the "and you don't get all these other services" is just a red herring because, again, we're talking about a fortune 500 that isn't building their services on a pair of servers. They buy racks at a time, at minimum, and unless they're grossly oversizing what they're buying, will have better performance per-dollar all-in, including the people cost and the surrounding infrastructure cost, to say nothing of the egress bandwidth because you know, their customers aren't just other AWS servers...
All of the "and you don't get all these other services" is just a red herring because, again, we're talking about a fortune 500 that isn't building their services on a pair of servers. They buy racks at a time, at minimum, and unless they're grossly oversizing what they're buying, will have better performance per-dollar all-in, including the people cost and the surrounding infrastructure cost, to say nothing of the egress bandwidth because you know, their customers aren't just other AWS servers...