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Moving away from AWS reduced our annual server costs by 80% – from $1M to $200k

97 pointsby dlcmhover 2 years ago

7 comments

wruzaover 2 years ago
<i>What technology stack do you use, and why did you choose this stack?<p>We use Javascript everywhere, since we solve the “issues” caused by Javascript rendering we want to build as much expertise as possible in this field. But for the other parts, we are taking advantage of CloudFlare’s distributed system for fast response and global scalability. While our uptime guarantees are supported by Digital Ocean’s cloud platform. We also use a myriad of other SaaS providers to maximize our effectiveness.</i><p>Quoting in case you were looking for this part like me.
_nickwhiteover 2 years ago
I&#x27;m not 100% sure what the destination platform was that was only 20% the AWS cost. Digital Ocean? A &quot;myriad of other SaaS platforms&quot;? Self-hosted in a colo datacenter somewhere? How does this newer solution scale? What are the intangible costs, and are there additional staff considerations? Do you answer the pager at 2AM when a physical piece of hardware goes down?
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ricketteover 2 years ago
Previously: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33077876" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33077876</a>
yrgulationover 2 years ago
One powerful reason to use aws is autoscaling. Everything else is bs.
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DeathArrowover 2 years ago
It&#x27;s easy to move if you don&#x27;t use custom functionality of a particular cloud provider. That seems to be the case in this story.
lukaxover 2 years ago
It is not mentioned in the article but it seems they have moved to Hetzner, which has free ingress&#x2F;egress.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnslytics.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;5.9.82.52" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnslytics.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;5.9.82.52</a>
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ratg13over 2 years ago
This has been on hn previously but can&#x27;t find the threads.