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I hear you. Personally I never understood the appeal of costly hosting at AWS and such. It just always seemed so expensive. The only benefit it provided, imho, is when you legitimately need to scale very quickly or if you've got a really huge variance in load.
Everything else? My own servers please, and thank you for reading ๐
What I read so far:
The dynamic scaling is what makes it worth it.
Many of the traditional hosting offerings just give you a monolithic VPS/dedicated hardware.
But if you want to up/downscale depending on peak demand during lunch hour it get's complicated.
How much is this true?
Not only are those clouds expensive, they are also slow.
So perhaps a fifth of the peak hardware would be cheaper than the entire AWD and still more than capable.
How much, I can't say. Not my pay grade :p
But for peak demand they can assume a certain amount from historical data or expected load for something special (like an exclusive report everyone would like to read about).
And lunch hours arent shifting around much. So you could schedule more load balancing during the hours of 11am to 3pm in advance.
Just depends on your usecase I guess.
I bet it's great if your business is Spirit Halloween.