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Re:Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting by cm2187 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @02:25AM (#41633601)
It depends what you do with it. If you only need a small VM to manage your emails nothing will beat a VPS. But I also use it for offsite backup, so need a bit of storage. When you add dozens of TB, dedicated quickly becomes way more expensive. Particularly given that I tend to park there old hard drives which cost I have already amortised.
Re:Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting by Dylan16807 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @02:40AM (#41633682)
Well, up to a few dozens of TB hetzner will charge you €27 per month for each 22TB hard drive, so it's not that fast that colocation gets better.
Re:Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting by cm2187 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @03:49AM (#41634179)
If you buy your drives smartly that's amortised after 8 months. When you are looking at the cost over 5 years, it is hard to beat colocation for specialised hardware.
Re:Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting by Dylan16807 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @12:23PM (#41638200)
I'm ignoring upfront cost here, and going based on the premise of 100€-300€ as the monthly fee for colocation. You can't amortize your way out of that.