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We have to solve the money problem! (blenderdumbass.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I wonder why it needs so much money for infra? Last time I rented a VPS it was €7/month for 8 Core Xeon E5 V4, 12 GB DDR4 RAM, 150 GB SSD/NVME, Unlimited Traffic, 1 Gbps Port.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Storage. In the video he says that backups alone costs $500/month.

    Also, given that the instance is called "infosec.exchange", you can be sure that he is not running this on some cheap VPS.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe the problem is that they are using ridiculously overpriced enterprise services like AWS or Azure, which provide their own solutions for a lot of common things like backups, replicas, logging, etc, but cost 100x more than what you can get with DIY on some cheap VPS if you're fine with spending 1.25x more time.

    Also, given that the instance is called “infosec.exchange”, you can be sure that he is not running this on some cheap VPS.

    Why not, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why not, though.

    because cheap VPS will not give you enough bandwidth, or they oversubscribe their datacenters and their advertised speeds are far from real, or they have terrible support and if something goes down you are going to have a hard time to bring things up while having to explain to 10-15k people why things stopped working, or because the reason they manage to get such low prices is because they are selling user data on the side...

    I'm not saying that the only correct alternative is to go to the big cloud providers, but there is a reason why "cheap" is not the sole criteria to choose a service provider.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yes, the cheapest ones might have some risks, I mostly presented it as an example of what the opposite extremity looks like. There is a lot in-between, something a bit more expensive is even more guaranteed win. For example last time I used Hetzner, I had a server with 64gb RAM, 2TB SSD, and 16 cores Ryzen for something like €34/month. Hetzner support is very decent and they're very well known, have decent reputation and been providing their services for a long time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm currently watching the interview (quite interesting, to be honest, funny to watch an interview about Fediverse services). Could you please share the timestamp when Jerry talks about finances and costs?

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