Case Study: Saving Over 99% by Migrating From Public Cloud to Private Cloud
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A case study on migrating from public to private cloud, saving over 99% in costs, with community skepticism about the comparison.
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sema4hacker
4 months ago
1 replyThis doesn't really explain public vs. private. The implication is that private means renting a dedicated system, though their "solution" quotes virtual cores and claims a public cloud equivalent would be $1,220/month, which seems unnecessarily high.
systemswizard
4 months ago
I don’t think the author has a clue, they’re bitching about vercel and others like it, not an actual ‘cloud’ provider like gcp or azure
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