alt Hacker News> My 4565p is a $500 cpu... 32 vcpus... racked in a datacenter. The machine cost under 2k.
> The cloud provider charging $140 / mo for 3x less vcpus you break even in a couple months, it doesn't matter if it dies a few months later
How do you calculate break even in a couple months if the machine costs $2,000 and you still have to pay colo fees?
If your colo fees were $100 month you wouldn’t break even for over 4 years. You could try to find cheaper colocation but even with free colocation your example doesn’t break even for over a year.
the 140/mo is for 3x less vcpu, so $420/mo savings if you use all those same cores. sorry for the poor comparison wording there. in a few months already up to $1300+ by 6 months already paid the machine.
colo fees are cheap if you need more than just 1u. even with a 50-100 fee you easily get way more performance and come ahead within a year