On: Moving away from AWS reduced our annual server cos...

[_nickwhite]

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 → _nickwhite]

Digital 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 → kotlin2]

Since when? When I used them they charged $10 per TB of bandwidth

[galleywest200 → missedthecue]

You 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/

[raffraffraff → galleywest200]

They're also part of the bandwidth alliance, unlike AWS.

[hasperdi → raffraffraff]

Digitalocean is not a member of the bandwidth alliance

[raffraffraff → hasperdi]

Ooh, surprising. I thought I saw their logo in the wall of logos last time I checked.

[supermatt → _nickwhite]

First paragraph says "in-house infrastructure"