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I'm not 100% sure what the destination platform was that was only 20% the AWS cost. Digital Ocean? A "myriad of other SaaS platforms"? Self-hosted in a colo dat
by _nickwhite 4y ago
I'm not 100% sure what the destination platform was that was only 20% the AWS cost. Digital Ocean? A "myriad of other SaaS platforms"? Self-hosted in a colo datacenter somewhere? How does this newer solution scale? What are the intangible costs, and are there additional staff considerations? Do you answer the pager at 2AM when a physical piece of hardware goes down?
- kotlin2 4y agoDigital ocean doesn't charge traffic costs. I'm not sure if that was used in the article, but DO can provide significant savings for high-bandwidth services.
- missedthecue 4y agoSince when? When I used them they charged $10 per TB of bandwidth
- galleywest200 4y agoYou now get the first TB for free per droplet. So if you have 5 droplets thats 5 free TBs outbound per month. Inbound is always free. https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/billing/bandwidth/ https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/billing/bandwidth/
- raffraffraff 4y agoThey're also part of the bandwidth alliance, unlike AWS.
- hasperdi 4y agoDigitalocean is not a member of the bandwidth alliance
- raffraffraff 4y agoOoh, surprising. I thought I saw their logo in the wall of logos last time I checked.
- supermatt 4y agoFirst paragraph says "in-house infrastructure"