Comment by taminka

5 days ago

many ppl also underestimate how capable modern hardware is: for ~10usd you could handle like a million concurrent connections with a redis cluster on a handful of VPSs...

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merb  4 days ago

many ppl also understimate how complex it is to satisfy uptime requirements, how to scale out local infrastructure when storage > 10/50/100tb (yeah a single disk can handle that, but what about bit rot, raid stuff, etc) is involved.

it gets worse when you need more servers because your ocr process of course needs cpu x so on a beefiy machine you can handle maybe 50 high page documents. but how do you talk to other machines, etc.

also humans costs way more money than cloud stuff. I the cloud stuff can be managed in like 1 day per month you dont need a real person, if you have real hardware that day is not enough and you soon need a dedicated person, keeping everything up-to-date, etc.

  • rcxdude  4 days ago

    >also humans costs way more money than cloud stuff. I the cloud stuff can be managed in like 1 day per month you dont need a real person, if you have real hardware that day is not enough and you soon need a dedicated person, keeping everything up-to-date, etc.

    In my experience, I have observed the opposite: companies with on-site infrastructure have been able to manage it in the spare time of a relatively small team (especially since hardware is pretty powerful and reliable nowadays), while those with cloud infrastruture have a large team focused on just maintaining the system, because cloud pushes you into far more complex setups.