Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs
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Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs
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Re: Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs
#2For Amazon AWS, I find Amazon's tool to be much more detailed: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
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#3For Amazon AWS, I find Amazon's tool to be much more detailed: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
I can appreciate how much cleaner this is than the AWS calculator, although I agree, it lacks the detail.
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#4I'd like to be able to compare the same thing across providers.
e.g. what's the price difference between an AWS medium instance and the equivalent on Joyent/Rackspace?
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#5Can you also add a daily (next to hourly) amount input?
Because in our case (and I guess other companies/users) a big chunk of servers is running non-stop throughout the day and it is easier to get your mind around this figure.
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#6For Amazon AWS, I find Amazon's tool to be much more detailed: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
For a quick grocery list of servers and costs, to show your team/boss/... in a meeting, this works just fine.
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#7It would be great to see Windows Azure costs on this calculator. Great job indeed! People usually also use Cloud Storage services (s3 etc), maybe you can do something for that.
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#8Suggestion: it would be nice to see RDS instances in here too.
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#9Is it just me, or is could computing and the associated costs really difficult to figure out?
I'm not sure wether this is something I need to know, or is it specialist knowledge that server admins need to be on top of?
Maybe I'm dumb, but keeping up with all the software stuff coming out (frameworks, libraries, best practices etc) is hard enough. Personally, I'm struggling to figure out what's going on with hardware and could computing.
It's especially difficult when it comes to services like Heroku, where it seems I'm expected to know about hundreds of these "things" with on-trend logos and ambiguous names before I can feel like I've gotten anywhere near to making an informed decision.
Or maybe I should shut up moaning and read more... but where's the time man! WHERE'S THE GOD DAMN TIME! I"VE GOT OTHER THINGS TO DO!!!
Re: Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs
#10Is it just me, or is could computing and the associated costs really difficult to figure out? I'm not sure wether this is something I need to know, or is it specialist knowledge that server admins need to be on top of? Maybe I'm dumb, but keeping up with all the software stuff coming out (frameworks, libraries, best practices etc) is hard enough. Personally, I'm struggling to figure out what's going on with hardware…
I feel your pain. I just attended a NoSQL conference this week and my head is spinning with the amount of service providers and solutions there exists. One day, I'd like to extend my calculator to include doing a full blown IaaS vs PaaS comparo.
To answer your question, getting a good handle of knowing your operation costs has happened after the fact your servers were spinning. Most of my clients assumed that going to Cloud will help you save money. That has not been the case and I had to keep calculating costs over and over again.