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Can anyone take a crack at why the hell you need a company and its computer farm 3000 miles away to merey sync your calendar, CalDav or whatever it is between two devices that are oerfectly capable of taking to each other or with a local-first mediating process or tool? I don't get what is about syncing things (particularly the basics like Contacts, Calendar/Reminders that requires you to send the data thousands of m…
Beware of cloud providers that don't "charge for egress" but do charge on a metric that is effectively a proxy for egress. For example, a cloud streaming service that charges for video delivery by per minute streamed is just charging for egress with extra steps.
Whereas with AWS they charge you for traffic between AWS regions last time I checked?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have regions outside of Germany too. And IIRC, the people being wire tapped were doing some illegal stuff.
Exactly, they were communicating in the russian language.
Serious Q for big Cloud spenders - how much have you negiotiated egress down from the list price?
If you can sign a yearly bandwidth commit (not sure what the minimum bandwidth requirement is, but 1PB / year may be in the ballpark) - you will get prices that are extremely competitive (maybe like 90%+ off base list pricing?)
What you can do about it is go back to the early 2000s and rack up your own boxes in a colo, with some reasonable unmetered bandwidth allocations, and skip the whole "cloud" nonsense. My personal box is a 6C/12T Xeon from a few years back, 128GB ECC RAM, and about 24TB usable disk plus 2TB NVMe, for running a lot of other VMs that I run actual services in (remote backup, my web presence, communications, game servers,…
Yep, we used to pay about $35/mo for an unmetered 1Gbit 1U slot at our local datacenter. What surprised me (but maybe is a standard these days?) is that you don't even need to install the server physically yourself. You just buy it, ship it to the datacenter, and wait for the remote access.
What you can do about it is go back to the early 2000s and rack up your own boxes in a colo, with some reasonable unmetered bandwidth allocations, and skip the whole "cloud" nonsense. My personal box is a 6C/12T Xeon from a few years back, 128GB ECC RAM, and about 24TB usable disk plus 2TB NVMe, for running a lot of other VMs that I run actual services in (remote backup, my web presence, communications, game servers,…
What you can do about it is go back to the early 2000s and rack up your own boxes in a colo, with some reasonable unmetered bandwidth allocations, and skip the whole "cloud" nonsense. My personal box is a 6C/12T Xeon from a few years back, 128GB ECC RAM, and about 24TB usable disk plus 2TB NVMe, for running a lot of other VMs that I run actual services in (remote backup, my web presence, communications, game servers,…
Can anyone take a crack at why the hell you need a company and its computer farm 3000 miles away to merey sync your calendar, CalDav or whatever it is between two devices that are oerfectly capable of taking to each other or with a local-first mediating process or tool? I don't get what is about syncing things (particularly the basics like Contacts, Calendar/Reminders that requires you to send the data thousands of m…
One thing to keep in mind - if you accidentally run up a bill because of a mistake, there’s a good chance you can reach out to support and they will credit your account. $5k may be a lot to an individual, but the cloud provider’s costs for that service are significantly less and they shouldn’t mind forgiving the charge. Case in point, when the author deleted his account and switched providers, the old host didn’t cha…
Instead, the cloud providers could offer prepaid credits/billing maximums to let individuals sleep at night. I would love to run my side project off of AWS to gain the experience, but no way I feel comfortable with a potentially unlimited liability because I configured something poorly. My joke project can take the uptime hit if it means I know that I will never spend more than $X to host it.