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That all takes time. With cloud, you can have a system up and running in literal seconds, which is very nice when you find out that you severely underestimated how much traffic you web app will get.

But yeah, in the long run, colocation becomes significantly cheaper than cloud. You use AWS, and you'll find yourself paying $200/month for hardware you could buy once for $2,000.

Sometimes I think people forgot colocation is an option that exists.



Purely in hardware costs. More like $200/mo payment can be replaced by $100-130 in hardware.

For $600 I can get hardware that outperforms a $1200/mo ec2. Easy.


Do you realize how few Pennie’s $200 a month is compared to $2000 for any decent size company?


No, I'm afraid we can't do basic math. Nobody will ever know how long it takes for $200 a month to end up costing more than a single outlay of $2000.


I’m saying that little savings is a rounding error to any business of any size


He is giving an example for a single server. You can * 100 both numbers if you want.




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