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Comment Re:AWS is too expensive (Score 1) 142

We are using AWS for our startup. Our bills are around $2200 a month. $1700 of that is a charge to have dedicated instances instead of shared. this gets us 6 servers - 4 small 2GB RAM web servers and 2 4GB ram DB servers (in reality what we need at the moment, we can scale the DB later when we bottle neck).

We've done the math ourselves and in reality we could probably save some money (face value) or buying servers ourselves and colocating them. But, then you have to add in the maintenance costs, a part time infrastructure support person, downtime, replication, etc. Plus, things like good firewalls, load balancers, are terribly expensive which we didn't factor into the equation.

In reality, it boils down to convenience for us to stick with AWS, though it maybe a slight premium in the end. It simply cuts out a lot of costs having to deal with infrastructure.

Is AWS perfect? No, not really. Any big storm you pray to baby Jesus US-EAST stays up. But, we've been happy so far with it. I'd say all in all it isn't even a premium, factoring in all the costs it is probably break even at this point. But for us we were able to scale from $200 in server costs a month to $2000 a month easily and we can scale to $10000 a month easily. it has its value.

Comment Re:The GOP are going to have a meltdown (Score 1, Informative) 297

I am unsure if you realize this, but for the last 6 years Obama has been President, with the democrats owning the Senate since well before that.

The biggest people complaining about this seem to be Rand Paul and sadly only a few others. Meanwhile the stupid and annoying cunts Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi circle jerk around how we need this surveillance state.

Comment Re:They've been pushing this angle for a while (Score 5, Informative) 362

Or he could just do both, build cars and sell batteries. Plenty of car manufactures sell tech and parts to other car manufactures. So many car parts are outsourced in a vehicle it is absurd.

He is doing all right pushing his cars so far and advancing his tech, why stop doing something that is working?

Comment Big problems ahead (Score 4, Interesting) 283

The aging population relies on the tax base of the young to sustain any old age benefit program.

What happens when you don't have enough young people to sustain the program the old people depend on?

Will the young revolt? Will the old vote heavier taxes on the young so they can live their lifestyle?

There are massive socioeconomic problems that will not only impact Japan but America and other western countries.

The young will be piggy banks for so long before getting tired of it.

Comment Yeah, maybe not now (Score -1, Flamebait) 588

But she wouldn't shut her cock holster for awhile about it. Now she is trying to rewrite history about how stupid she was so she doesn't appear to be a total fuckwit.

I assume her limited acting engagements got even smaller when film studios realized how badly most people didn't like her because of her anti-vaccine views, putting everyone at risk because she is a moron. So, now that money isn't coming in, time to reframe your argument.

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