> I'm just in the process of cutting a clients hosting costs by about 80% by ditching AWS for a setup on managed servers...
And what are the additional long-term development/sysadmin costs of having to manage those servers and infrastructure?
And how did the client factor in the risk of being tied to you and your knowledge of this particular managed server setup?
And how did the client factor in the risk of being tied to a particular vendor's managed servers?
It may very well have still been the right decision for the client to move from cloud to managed servers.
However, my point is that if you solely base the cloud vs. managed decision on hosting costs, you are ignoring other real long-term costs and risks that are not as readily apparent, but can still have a significant impact in terms of upgrades, maintainability, downtime, availability, changes in personnel, etc.
And what are the additional long-term development/sysadmin costs of having to manage those servers and infrastructure?
And how did the client factor in the risk of being tied to you and your knowledge of this particular managed server setup?
And how did the client factor in the risk of being tied to a particular vendor's managed servers?
It may very well have still been the right decision for the client to move from cloud to managed servers.
However, my point is that if you solely base the cloud vs. managed decision on hosting costs, you are ignoring other real long-term costs and risks that are not as readily apparent, but can still have a significant impact in terms of upgrades, maintainability, downtime, availability, changes in personnel, etc.