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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by oersted on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:24AM (#46055708)
That’s fair enough but that’s a luxury position, if costs are not concern to you then there’s not much point in discussing the merits of different methods to manage infrastructure efficiently.

And yes of course such costs are nothing if you are thinking of $300K just on a couple sysadmins. But this is just a bizarre bubble in a handful of small areas in the US and I am not sure how it can stay like that for much longer in this era of remote work.

We built a whole business with $100K in seed and a few government grants. I have worked with quite a few world-class senior engineers happily making 40K-70K.

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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by aurareturn on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:38AM (#46055786)
Don't get me wrong. If I'm starting a brand new business with my own money and no funding, I'd absolutely buying a cheap dedicated instance. In the past, AWS gave out generous credits to startups/new businesses. This is no longer the case.

Once my business requires reliability and I need to hire a dedicated person to manage, I'd absolutely move to the cloud. I personally like Digital Ocean/Render.

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