Comment by logifail
1 month ago
> and server hardware is expensive up front
You don't need to buy server hardware(!), the article specifically mentions renting from eg Hetzner.
> The benefits of "just don't think about hardware" are real
Can you explain on this claim, beyond what the article mentioned?
> Can you explain on this claim, beyond what the article mentioned?
I run a lambda behind a load balancer, hardware dies, its redundant, it gets replaced. I have a database server fail, while it re provisions it doesn't saturate read IO on the SAN causing noisy neighbor issues.
I don't deal with any of it, I don't deal with depreciation, I don't deal with data center maintenance.
> I don't deal with depreciation, I don't deal with data center maintenance.
You don't deal with that either if you rent a dedicated server from a hosting provider. They handle the datacenter and maintenance for you for a flat monthly fee.
They do rely on you to tell them if hardware fails, however, and they'll still unplug your server and physically fix it. And there's a risk they'll replace the wrong drive in your RAID pair and you'll lose all your data - this happens sometimes - it's not a theoretical risk.
But the cloud premium needs reiteration: twenty five times. For the price of the cloud server, you can have twenty-five-way redundancy.
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