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by qeternity 1119 days ago
> You could do this for about $1k/mo with Linode and Wasabi.

This is still crazy expensive. Cloud providers have really warped people’s expectations.

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Well, for us it's actually really cheap because we really just want the compute. The bandwidth is just a bonus.

Actually, since the Akami acquisition it would be even cheaper.

$800/mo to serve 100TB with fairly high bandwidth and low latency from cold storage is a good deal IMO. I know companies paying millions a year to serve less than a third of that through AWS when you include compute, DB, and storage.

Fine, but now you’re changing the comparison. Spending millions on compute with low bandwidth requirements doesn’t make it stupid. It probably still is, but that’s a different conversation.
lol no, it sure is. But OP didn't give a price range or durability requirements...
You could do it through interserver for $495/mo (5 20gb sata disks, 150tb free bandwidth). 10gbps link. 128gb ram for page cache.

Backups probably wouldn't be much more.