alt Hacker NewsIt's all about trade off.
Do you want to spend thousands of dollar upfront for that DB server with sweet sweet NVME SSDs, of which your application might not even use 1% before the app get scraped?
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You also fail to realize that even managing a physical DB server is much easier now with AI, enabling people to more easily understand what their infrastructure needs are, what maintenance is needed, how things can be automated.
You can rent bare metal server for that. The real advantage of cloud solution is a cohesive offer, ease of scalability, and many other things which boils down to "we take care of things for you". It can be worth the $, i can also be a huge waste of $.
No, you can just rent a VPS with local NVMe storage if even renting bare metal is too much.
And yet we do multi year purchase commitment contracts with cloud providers that break that "flexibility" premise.
With the multi million dollars A MONTH purchase commitment contracts I've seen in my previous employers, you could use a single month budget to buy hardware that could serve our applications for years.
Sounds cheaper than AWS :)
So like, 0.5 extra salary months to make sure the whole company's app is fast?
scraped -> scrapped
totally different words
Why are you paying for hardware that might not even be used ? If you get an unexpected burst of demand that's not the worst problem to have. You can even jump on a cloud for a few months.
Back in the old days we chucked it all on one box. Then scaled up when we needed to.
If you can’t afford to throw down enough money on a single box to bring a business up then you’re fucked anyway.
I know whole businesses that make a lot of money and never needed more than that box. (And a hot spare)