As with any good decision, it was time to break out the spreadsheets and figure out where to move next, a new Amazon EC2 cloud architecture, VPS, dedicated hosting or colocation options. STH September 2011 The trigger was never pulled and even with some intermittent downtime, everything ran smoothly until late 2012 when I/O constraints started showing up in the Amazon cloud and bandwidth costs rose with visitor counts. I did note in that earlier piece that a new server was built every few months for colocation.Approximately every 60-90 days I build out a dedicated server for STH…. At the end of the day, I always come to the conclusion that I do not want to be responsible for changing hardware in a remote location in the middle of the night. Moving to the Amazon EC2 cloud made sense.
That worked at best OK but there were still issues.
Costs of Amazon EC2 Cloud, VPS, Dedicated and Colocation OptionsĮvolving STH meant moving from a very large shared host to a VPS once shared hosting performance was not cutting it. This works really well in the cloud since the majority of the traffic is incoming (data upload) and the resources are only used for batch processing (<30% usage.) The price analysis below is based on real-world usage of a web site where there there is much more outgoing data versus incoming data (~30:1 ratio) and one needs 100% up-time. There the model is spin up elastic compute nodes, upload data to the compute nodes, and generally send back an answer orders of magnitude smaller than the original data set. We hear in the press how companies save piles of money by moving to the cloud, especially for batch processing. Think the cloud is cheaper? For batch jobs or loads that run under 30% of the time, it works well. Since we have received many comments asking for cost breakdowns, that will be the focus of this article. In Part 2 of the Falling from the Sky series, we looked at the requirements for this site with a WordPress back end and vBulletin forums and what was guiding the analysis regarding the future state architecture. The next step was in figuring out what the requirements would be for the next generation ServeTheHome infrastructure. For the reasoning behind the latest infrastructure project, see Falling From the Sky – Why STH is Leaving the Cloud.
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Continuing the series regarding how ServeTheHome is moving from the cloud to its own hardware, it is probably time to look at some of the costs involved.
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