On 8/31/16 9:08 AM, Don Buchholz wrote: > On 8/30/2016 11:40 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: >> > On 8/30/16 1:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >>> >> Amazon's services are often expensive compared to the cost of running >>> >> those services in-house on bare metal -- but once you factor in the >>> >> costs of leasing space and building out your own data center, they >>> >> become reasonable. >> > Funny you should say that. I work with a storage vendor and while the >> > "cloud" on-demand model works great for compute, it falls down >> > completely for storage. A napkin-math calculation for 16TB allowed you >> > to buy a new small NAS system every two or three months. :) >> > >> > Michael > I'm curious. Did the back-o-the-napkin estimate include operational > costs? Backups, backup verification, offsite storage and the cost of > the connection (it may be a courier van or more bandwidth) to move the > data offsite ... and restore in a reasonable amount of time? I haven't > run the numbers ... but am reminded how often systems are purchased on a > budgets which assume ops/maintenance will "just happen".
You would indeed have to know what you are doing but that is true of any solution. Amazon is generally affordably to fill but very costly to drain. I understand they will sell you a private VPN directly to their data center for a yet higher fee. Out of curiosity, how much data do you store on the cloud? Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
