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by f0ff
2233 days ago
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Avoiding cloud works well for small requirements too - worked for a company that ran a global store; we've opted for dedicated servers on OVH, all together had about 40 of them. It was 1/10th the price of running the infrastructure on AWS. We still used S3 though. |
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I recently talked with someone who said their costs dropped in half from switching off a major cloud provider to OVH's dedicated servers. Performance went way up too.
For $200 / month you can get a machine with a high end Xeon 8 core (16 threads) CPU, 128 GB of memory, 4.5 TB of SSD space across multiple disks with unlimited incoming / outgoing traffic and anti-DDoS protection.
No reputable cloud provider is going to come close to that price with their listed prices.
Of course there's trade offs like not being able to click a button and get it within 2 minutes for most server types but if you have consistent and predictable traffic, going with an over provisioned dedicated server seems like a very viable option.