| > Any time someone says this I have to question if they really looked at the "all in" number. Yes we did.
> Did you include the salary of the person in purchasing who orders the servers? That's a one time cost, and very low. > Did you include the lost engineering time dealing with dead servers (instead of just shutting them off)? Of course- but AWS has higher engineering costs to make it work, so self-hosting comes out in the end. > Did you include the cost of spare hardware sitting around for emergencies? You don't really need spare hardware. You have redundancy and get same day service from your vendors. And hardware nowadays rarely fails. > Did you include the cost of downtime due to broken hardware while waiting for it to be repaired or replaced? That would be zero, because a properly designed system has no downtime. > There are so many other costs to running your own datacenter besides the servers and the space, which Amazon gets to amortize over all their customers, but you have to bear 100% on your own. Sure, but there are so many other costs to running on Amazon that aren't there with self hosted. |