Comment by graemep

Comment by graemep 2 days ago

> They're selling all their capabilities; using them as a VPS is like using a battleship to cut cheese.

A lot of people do it.

People feel the battleship is safe and familiar. For most businesses the extra cost is not even noticed. Even a small business spending $500/month on hosting instead of $50 is not going to notice.

Also, if something goes wrong (e.g. your AWS region goes down) its far easier to explain to a manager or client that "its Amazon's fault and lots of stuff is down", rather than "its Digital Ocean's fault".

pinkgolem 2 days ago

To be fair, i have never seen a business with a 500$ monthly cloud bill, AWS seems to start around 10k given or taken for a light production workload

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graemep a day ago

You have never seen a small business then. A local shop is not spending $10k to host their website. Lots of VPS hosts have products aimed at this market so it must he significant in aggregate.
My point is small businesses tend to be owner managed and therefore more cost sensitive and the costs are still not a significant factor. AS businesses get bigger its even less significant and its other people's money.

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- pinkgolem a day ago
  
  A local business is not using AWS usually but shoppify or Odo or whatever hosting provider provides a management wp.
  And at least here in Germany, they are nickel an dimming on the hosting cost.
  
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