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Ask HN: Should I use my old computer instead of cloud?

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Re: Ask HN: Should I use my old computer instead of cloud?

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Why would you rent a cloud instance that is as overprovisioned as your home computer? Price compare based upon what you'll actually use, not what you have available. You'd be surprised how much you can run on a few small VPSes or a container hosting service like fly.io

A couple of years ago, we did calculations that showed for the price of a year of hosting, we could buy the equipment outright. This price was only for hardware, not electric, cooling, connectivity, etc though.

Re: Ask HN: Should I use my old computer instead of cloud?

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I agree with the other commenters that overprovisioning (or underprovisioning) is a concern with the cloud, but the public cloud has long been more secure than on-prem data centers [1], [2], [3].

As for the cost, Reserved Instances can dramatically reduce your spend, with the caveat that you can get locked in 1 or 3 years. My company, Usage.AI, built a platform to solve this problem by automatically buying and selling Reserved Instances to get the price and flexibility benefits in one [4].

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3010006/sorry-it-the-publi... [2] https://blogs.oracle.com/cloudsecurity/post/7-reasons-why-th... [3] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ent... [4] http://usage.ai

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