How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount

Re:How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure wit... by SkyPuncher on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:36PM (#40309977)

In my eyes, physical hardware is something non-growth companies do to improve margins.

When you’re a growth stage company, the flexibility and leanness that comes from the cloud is important. Once your core product and computing demands stabilize, it’s a good time to figure out what makes sense to move to cheaper compute.

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Re:How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure wit... by nojvek on Thursday May 09, 2024 @09:37PM (#40314738)

Exactly. Dropbox was cloud and then later moved to on-prem to save on storage costs.

Anyone running >1000 servers with >80% utilization should consider going partially colocated.

Comma.ai and Tesla come to mind who run their own training clusters.

If you are serious about compute and cost of compute and storage is ~100s of engineers, then moving off cloud is a wise strategy.

Cloud providers have huge margins. One can run a very profitable business if they get a pie of that margin.

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