Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
by vonmoltke on Thursday February 13, 2014 @11:54AM
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And how many of those are significantly different between the two options? Either way, you still need one or more sysadmins, you still need a backup setup. Sure, there are extra maintenance costs associated with owning the hardware, but what portion of maintaining a server infrastructure is tied up specifically in that, and how does it scale relative to the size of the cluster?
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Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
by nasalgoat on Thursday February 13, 2014 @03:01PM
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In my experience of managing a team of 10+ admins, less than 5% of their time was spent dealing with physical hardware and that includes installation and repair.
Today's equipment is very reliable.