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Use One Big Server (2022)

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343 points antov825 | 3 comments | 31 Aug 25 17:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.565s | source
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decasia ◴[31 Aug 25 18:12 UTC] No.45085472[source]▶
Regardless of the cost and capacity analysis, it's just hard to fight the industry trends. The benefits of "just don't think about hardware" are real. I think there is a school of thought that capex should be avoided at all costs (and server hardware is expensive up front). And above all, if an AWS region goes down, it doesn't seem like your org's fault, but if your bespoke private hosting arrangement goes down, then that kinda does seem like your org's fault.
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1. wongarsu ◴[31 Aug 25 18:21 UTC] No.45085555[source]▶
For anything up to about 128GB RAM you can still easily avoid capex by just renting servers. Above that it gets a bit trickier
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2. matt-p ◴[31 Aug 25 18:46 UTC] No.45085824[source]▶
Renting (hosted) servers above 128GB RAM is still pretty easy, but I agree pricing levels out. 128GB RAM server ~$200/Month, 384 GB ~$580, 1024 GB ~$940/Month
3. IshKebab ◴[31 Aug 25 18:58 UTC] No.45085954[source]▶
It's not like it's a huge capex for that level of server anyway. Probably less than the cost of one employee's laptop.