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Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us 230,000$ /yr. (blog.oneuptime.com)

submitted 10 months ago by OuPeaNut@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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[–] Radium@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

They barely touched on the time and money spent managing bare metal. I’d imagine that 230k a year is gonna get a big ol dent in it when their assumption of “modern servers make maintenance needs much lower” turns out to be false.

All for not hosting in AWS but I want to see one of these articles put out actual numbers about what it looks like to run. I want the we are two years into this and have learned X, Y, and Z post. And one that isn’t written by DHH