It amazes me that in these discussions people always make a beeline right to the price, as if it not only matters but is the paramount point of concern.
I'm not exactly in the wily-nilly "VC money has caused me to lose all sense of proportion so I think I'm going to spend $20,000 on a nice big fishtank filled with tropical freaking bats" section of the market, but I look at $17 difference in these options or $8 difference in, e.g., Slicehost vs. Linode and wonder "What conceivable circumstances are there where this both matters and can not be compensated for by eating less pizza and more ramen?"
(Yeah, if you start buying dozens of them, it almost approaches real money every month. Of course, if you're buying dozens of them, you should ideally be running a business on top of them.)
I make a beeline to the prices because the last two startup companies I worked for ran dozens of instances and was running a business on top of them. I've directed tens of thousands of dollars in to EC2, that's why I'm interested.
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It amazes me that in these discussions people always make a beeline right to the price, as if it not only matters but is the paramount point of concern.
I'm not exactly in the wily-nilly "VC money has caused me to lose all sense of proportion so I think I'm going to spend $20,000 on a nice big fishtank filled with tropical freaking bats" section of the market, but I look at $17 difference in these options or $8 difference in, e.g., Slicehost vs. Linode and wonder "What conceivable circumstances are there where this both matters and can not be compensated for by eating less pizza and more ramen?"
(Yeah, if you start buying dozens of them, it almost approaches real money every month. Of course, if you're buying dozens of them, you should ideally be running a business on top of them.)
I make a beeline to the prices because the last two startup companies I worked for ran dozens of instances and was running a business on top of them. I've directed tens of thousands of dollars in to EC2, that's why I'm interested.