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Re:Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides by latch on Saturday January 11, 2014 @03:09AM (#7042008)
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..

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Re:Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides by swisspol on Monday January 13, 2014 @04:13PM (#7053320)
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.
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