> You'd have to price in the cognitive load for engineering for that setup, and the recruiting costs / turnover costs for anyone that had to be exposed to the colo center.
All of which tends to be more expensive if you replace the "colo center" at the end with "cloud provider".
Operating a cloud setup is by no means free of operational issues.
> so you'd need staff in more than 1 region
If you're too small to need that, you use managed hosting, pay a tiny premium over bare metal colo providers, but still far less than a cloud setup.
> It's not simplistic at all
Yes, it is, it is trivial to model, and for companies that don't have the experience, there are consultancies everywhere that will do it for you (that's part of what I do for a living - it's always the easiest jobs to get paid for, because there are hard numbers that shows them how much more they'll be saving that year than what they'll be paying me).
> but unless your hosting costs are really dragging down profit, I'd pinch pennies elsewhere personally.
I regularly deal with clients where hosting costs are measured in tens of percent of total operating costs. For a lot of internet related business, hosting is a massive drag.
All of which tends to be more expensive if you replace the "colo center" at the end with "cloud provider".
Operating a cloud setup is by no means free of operational issues.
> so you'd need staff in more than 1 region
If you're too small to need that, you use managed hosting, pay a tiny premium over bare metal colo providers, but still far less than a cloud setup.
> It's not simplistic at all
Yes, it is, it is trivial to model, and for companies that don't have the experience, there are consultancies everywhere that will do it for you (that's part of what I do for a living - it's always the easiest jobs to get paid for, because there are hard numbers that shows them how much more they'll be saving that year than what they'll be paying me).
> but unless your hosting costs are really dragging down profit, I'd pinch pennies elsewhere personally.
I regularly deal with clients where hosting costs are measured in tens of percent of total operating costs. For a lot of internet related business, hosting is a massive drag.