Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
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Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
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Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#2I had no idea it cost this much to host rubygems.org.
The website says that hosting is provided by BlueBox?
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#3That's not as bad as I was expecting. I was once working with a startups infrastructure (>100 servers) and it was near 20k/mo (mostly reserved instances)
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#4I had no idea it cost this much to host rubygems.org. The website says that hosting is provided by BlueBox?
They might provide by paying for it rather than hosting themselves
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#5I had no idea it cost this much to host rubygems.org. The website says that hosting is provided by BlueBox?
This seems to be mostly their CDN bill. Not sure, but I don't really consider a CDN as part of hosting fees, more of a general infrastructure fee.
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#6While 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.
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#7That's not as bad as I was expecting. I was once working with a startups infrastructure (>100 servers) and it was near 20k/mo (mostly reserved instances)
Yes, this seems quite reasonable considering the scale it handles.
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#8While 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.
> which costs less than the fully-loaded cost of a single billing clerk in your local municipal water department.
To be fair, a lot of maintenance value goes into the software that is never quantified. Broken software breaks hard, not partially, so maintenance is even more crucial.
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#9At a glance, this looks like AWS being used like a dedicated host, which as demonstrated, isn't exactly cheap.
There's no spot or even reserved pricing, just a bunch of on-demand instances that were up 24/7 for all 28 days in February.
Seems like a genuine dedicated host, reserved instances or an architecture that leverages the elastic in elastic compute cloud would be worth considering.
Re: Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
#10The 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.