The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Posted Mar 4, 2018 23:08 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: The true costs of hosting in the cloud by csd
Parent article: The true costs of hosting in the cloud

The author touched briefly on "demand management" but that turns out to be a crucial deciding factor in favor of the cloud

I thought the author stated this as a crucial factor, in that it is what pushed the cost of colo, as he developed it, over the cost of cloud. You have to buy bigger servers than you need because a) you might have underestimated your need; b) you might grow; and c) a server might break.

With cloud, all that is included in the hourly rate and because it's combined with the same margins for a thousand other tenants, it should increase the hourly rate by less than it increases the colo costs.