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Right now we're a top 25 grossing iPhone game developer. The last AWS bill I saw was January's, a little under $200k. I'm not on the server team, so I don't know exactly what contributes most to it. But part of me really thinks it could be reduced!
The thing is there are many providers who can do the same and most of them will do it for less than half of this. Some less than 1/5th. I think they should move this to Digital Ocean and save $5000. The bias towards AWS for this type of application is ridiculous and a big waste of money.
Whenever anybody makes this type of statement, I'm alway interested in knowing if they've ever run a site with this type of traffic, and this many customers. In particular, have you ever run a site that consistently serves over 25 Terabytes of traffic/month, or have you worked with someone who has? I guarantee you that no company I have worked for in the last 15 years, could have ever run this type of infrastructure…
The thing is there are many providers who can do the same and most of them will do it for less than half of this. Some less than 1/5th. I think they should move this to Digital Ocean and save $5000. The bias towards AWS for this type of application is ridiculous and a big waste of money.
Digital Ocean doesn't provide a CDN. EC2 only account for 1.4k in the bill so I don't see how you would spare $5000.-
The thing is there are many providers who can do the same and most of them will do it for less than half of this. Some less than 1/5th. I think they should move this to Digital Ocean and save $5000. The bias towards AWS for this type of application is ridiculous and a big waste of money.
Whenever anybody makes this type of statement, I'm alway interested in knowing if they've ever run a site with this type of traffic, and this many customers. In particular, have you ever run a site that consistently serves over 25 Terabytes of traffic/month, or have you worked with someone who has? I guarantee you that no company I have worked for in the last 15 years, could have ever run this type of infrastructure…
True, but lets not compare offerings of the past to now. There is still room for practical efficiency gains.
BTW this is paid for by : http://rubycentral.org/
If the bill remained relatively consistent they could host Rubygems.org for ~28 months with 200K.
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Digital Ocean doesn't provide a CDN. EC2 only account for 1.4k in the bill so I don't see how you would spare $5000.-
Bandwidth on DO is (worst case), $20.48/TB, so their 17TB usage would cost $348/month. A far cry from $5,000.
While one could probably knock a couple thousand bucks off that if one cared to (which is probably penny wise and pound foolish but invariably comes up in HN discussions of hosting costs), the amazing thing is that hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are able to use core infrastructure which costs less than the fully-loaded cost of a single billing clerk in your local municipal water department.
Right now we're a top 25 grossing iPhone game developer. The last AWS bill I saw was January's, a little under $200k. I'm not on the server team, so I don't know exactly what contributes most to it. But part of me really thinks it could be reduced!
If anyone ever ends up doing something like this; ask them upfront!
As for the CDN, switching to something like Cloudflare might make more sense rather than relying on Cloudfront. At the least, there's a "US and EU only" option for edge locations to use which si considerably cheaper than the default option of all edge locations.