The true costs of hosting in the cloud

The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Posted Feb 28, 2018 22:42 UTC (Wed) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498)
Parent article: The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Which brings us to the sensitive question of staff costs; Dyachuk described those as "substantial". These costs are for the system and network administrators who are needed to buy, order, test, configure, and deploy everything. Evaluating those costs is subjective: for example, salaries will vary between different countries. He fixed the person yearly salary costs at $250,000 (counting overhead and an actual $150,000 salary) and accounted for three people on staff. Those costs may also vary with the colocation service; some will include remote hands and networking, but he assumed in his calculations that the costs would end up being roughly the same because providers will charge extra for those services.

Is there really anyone outside of the San Francisco Bay area making this doing datacenter networking and sysadmin work? I mean, really?

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The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Posted Mar 1, 2018 0:51 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> Is there really anyone outside of the San Francisco Bay area making this doing datacenter networking and sysadmin work? I mean, really?

Sure. Look at the salary range for an experienced sysadmin in the coastal areas in U.S. Keep in mind, these are HCOL areas so the numbers are inflated in general.