I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
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Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#2Sorry but my $3 AWS instance is still cheaper than all of those options.
If you need a lot of, well, anything, be it compute, memory, storage, bandwidth etc., of course cloud stuff is going to be more expensive... but if you don't need that, then IMO $3/mo on-demand pricing really can't be beat when I don't have to maintain any equipment myself. Oracle also offers perpetually free VM instances if you don't mind the glow.
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#3Idiotic piece - the purpose of 'the cloud' is to scale large demand applications. Rental hardware can't really do that.
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#4As a note hetzner has a lot of auction servers and I believe they lack the setup fee
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#5yet another obsessive take on "cloud is bad and expensive" eh? I think they vastly forget the value of some SaaS offerings in terms of time saving for small companies. running and managing numerous DBs, k8s clusters, ci/cd pipelines and stateless container systems is simply impossible with a team of 1-2 people. sure if the setup is simple and only requires a few classic components, this is way cheaper and for a 99.9% SLA will work fine. otherwise it only makes sense if you had very large cloud bills and can dedicate multiple engineers to the newly created tasks.
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#6The cloud is a good idea. It becomes a bad idea when it is the only thing you know or, most likely, is the only cloud you know.
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#7As a note hetzner has a lot of auction servers and I believe they lack the setup fee
They have also threatened to cancel my account more than once because I typed "ipfs daemon".
https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10327
https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/moved-ipfs-node-result-netscan-d...
>This happens with Hetzner all the time because they have no VLANs and all customers are on a single LAN and IPFS tries to discover other nodes in the same LAN by default.
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#8The first couple of paragraphs of price comparisons are useful. Then there are many paragraphs of sheer waffle. The author doesn't even seem able to define what "the cloud" is:
> The whole debate of “is this still the cloud or not” is nonsense to me. You’re just getting lost in naming conventions. VPS, bare metal, on-prem, colo, who cares what you call it. You need to put your servers somewhere. Sure, have a computer running in your mom’s basement if that makes you feel like you’re exiting the cloud more, I’ll have mine in a datacenter and both will be happy.
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#9Idiotic piece - the purpose of 'the cloud' is to scale large demand applications. Rental hardware can't really do that.
An argument which begins by reducing an entire industry down to a single "purpose" is not convincing.
Re: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
#10I think a lot of teams using cloud are using SaaS rather than IaaS. They want a redis and a postgres and a S3 and a ... You can set all that up on a server, but it's not very fun if you've never done it before.