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0 pointslykr0n8y ago0 comments

If you know what you are doing, it is leaps and bounds cheaper to run your own hardware (co-located, rented from soneone else). The only issue is latency on scaling out (hours), but if you are halfway decent with trend lines you can preempt this.

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xiaodown8y ago

That's not the only issue; there's also a lot of compliance issues that having a hosting company can take care of. There's whole sections of PCI and HIPPA compliance that you can just write off as "not our problem, talk to AWS".

scurvy8y ago

PCI compliance had little to do with where you're hosted, but how you're hosted and what you do with data.

AWS is not a magical PCI compliance button.

013a8y ago

Theoretically, it isn't. In actuality, and in our experience, there are a lot of compliance standards where just saying "we're on AWS" gets you 90% of the way toward acceptance. Its mostly buzzword compliance.

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amazingman8y ago

And what if the delta between your upper and lower daily “trend lines” is measured in millions of requests per hour? Per second? We can leave off weekly/seasonal trends for now, and keep it nice and easy for you.

The utter lack of imagination that I see on HN when people are judging others’ technical decisions is kind of hilarious.

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