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1. dabinat · 1790931074 · focus · HN ↗

   I can’t speak for OVH specifically but I’ve recently been moving more and more jobs from AWS to my own hardware. I bought a couple of servers with older hardware (DDR4) and they’re way faster than what I was paying quite a lot of money for from AWS. The craziest part is that they pay for themselves after only two months. I wish I’d done it years ago.

   So if buying hardware makes sense, go for it over renting a server. You only pay the memory tax one time.

   1. reacharavindh · 1790938260 · focus · HN ↗

      The server/hardware is not the tricky part… networking and keeping it running 24/7 efficiently is..

      Where do your two servers run from?

      1. f646993e074382f · 1790949181 · focus · HN ↗

         I'm out of the loop but colocation used to be a thing, surely that must still exist ?

         1. reacharavindh · 1791040127 · focus · HN ↗

            They are getting quite expensive.. Not sure if I can rent a colocated facility for just a couple of servers and still come out ahead of the cloud vendors these days.

            If I had 100 servers to run, surely collocation would be in my favor.

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