Subj : Re: FInally hit a wall...
To   : paulie420
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Nov 24 2024 09:07:30

-=> paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pa> Its a fun time to be in the used server market; so long as you live
 pa> somewhere that you can afford to have them running 24/7. I'm stoked
 pa> that I am!

Server infrastructure is a swinging pendulum, buy when you can!

Everyone went to the cloud, then balked at the prices and set up local
server farms. That's how I got my most recent job - they had 100
non-production instances running in AWS and realized they could set up a
local ESX node for a fraction of the cost! Servers costs were high, it
seemed like more and more people were moving on-prem.

Swing 2: Company closed the data center and said all on-prem services
had to go to the cloud. We are here now, and servers are cheap as other
people are moving back to the cloud.

Next up? The guys from 37Signals just wrote up a blog post and a podcast
entry in their re-work podcast about how the company saved $2million in
its first year by moving back on-prem.

Here's an interesting excerpt:

Speaking of new hardware, 37signals bought about $700,000 of Dell
systems to replace its cloud instances, but Hansson claims this cost was
"entirely recouped" during 2023 as those contract commitments expired
one by one.

"Think about that for a second. This is gear we expect to use for the
next five, maybe even seven years! All paid off from savings accrued
during the second half of 2023," he commented.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/21/37signals_aws_savings/


 
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