Re:Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides
by swisspol on Saturday January 11, 2014 @12:02AM
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At Everpix, we were already extensively using spot instances for the vast majority of our EC2 needs (which were pretty intense considering the type of computation and image science we were doing). That did save quite a bit of money when we did the switch and it was easier to do than we expected, so strongly recommended!
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Re:Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides
by latch on Saturday January 11, 2014 @03:09AM
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Did you guys look at bare metal at all? (either dedicated or colocated)? Spot gets you in the same ballpark of price on a "unit", which can be mentally deceiving since an AWS unit is pretty weak.
In our experience with CPU or IO intensive workloads, Spots are still 2-5x slower than what you can get at decent dedicated provider..
Re:Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides
by swisspol on Monday January 13, 2014 @04:13PM
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No, there was no time nor did we have the in-team experience. EC2 is one thing, which you can get down to pretty cheap if leveraging spot instances, but most of our infrastructure costs was on storage.