If you run your own stack, you get lower prices and more flexibility. On the flip side, if you don't know how to administer MySQL, you'll have some learning to do.
Dedicated server pricing is 1/2 or less of what Amazon offers you, and you get better performance to boot. Seems like a no brainer to me (but then again I've been doing "dev ops" stuff since the late 90s and learned many lessons the hard way).
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If you run your own stack, you get lower prices and more flexibility. On the flip side, if you don't know how to administer MySQL, you'll have some learning to do.
Dedicated server pricing is 1/2 or less of what Amazon offers you, and you get better performance to boot. Seems like a no brainer to me (but then again I've been doing "dev ops" stuff since the late 90s and learned many lessons the hard way).