Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for a year or more in advance on a certain level of spend. Th...
    • repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
      21·
      10 months ago

      So you say that if you don’t make an additional investment in backup infrastructure your data is at risk… Sounds pretty similar to self-hosting, doesn’t it?

      • cygnus@lemmy.ca
        2·
        10 months ago

        More like the “cloud” provider should have multiple locations and redundancy in place.

        • progandy@feddit.de
          1·
          10 months ago

          That will also depend on if you include that in your subscription and pay for it. Some plans exclude that in the cheaper tiers if I remember correctly

      • progandy@feddit.de
        1·
        10 months ago

        Shocking, right? (/s) You don’t get what you do not pay for. OVH also offers private cloud hosting, basically managed servers in a cloud setup and normal hosting options. I have no idea, what the datacenter was primarily used for.