So the team is now responsible for backups, hardware ordering,.forecast etc?
How big is the team now compared to before?
Does it scale?
If you price it correctly and keep the free tier small, I would either talked to AWS for better pricing or moved to another cloud Provider.
S3 on AWS is a total no-brainer, minio on bare metal might mean much more work and a bigger infra team than business actually wants.
I would also love to know what optimizations are already in place. Does cloudflare caching work? Are the results compressed on rest? Is geolocation latency relevant?
Why even Cassandra? Are websites not unique? Wouldn't a nginx and a few big servers not work?
But who knows? The article doesn't tell me that :-(
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