> Since you’re self hosted, I’m you aren’t on AWS. How much is this setup costing you now if you don’t mind sharing.

About 28K euros of hardware per replica IIRC + colo costs.

Yearly, 28k Euros I presume.

Damn. I hope you make enough revenue to continue. This is pretty impressive.

No, one time + ongoing colocation costs.

So that's about 467 eur per month per server assuming a 5 year term. Anyone know what it would be on AWS with Aurora? I had a quick go with https://calculator.aws/ and ended up with a 5-figure sum per month.

I tried for fun:

https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=cfc9b9e8207961f777766e1...

Seems like it would be 160k USD a month.

I could not input my actual IO stats there, I was getting:

Baseline IO rate can't be more than 1000000000 per hour.

The CPU itself is around $8-10k for a top-end AMD Epyc, $15-20k for the rest of the server, including memory and storage is probably about right. There are still $100k+ servers, but they tend to be AI equipment at this point, not the general purpose stuff, which is sub $30-50k now.

I mean no disrespect, but it is stunning how hard the idea of owning your own hardware is to a large percentage of the tech population.

You can just… own servers. I have five in a rack in my house. I could pay a colo a relatively small fee per month for a higher guarantee of power and connectivity. This idea also scales.

> 16TB without nothing weird is pretty impressive. Our devops team reached for Aurora way before that.

Probably depends on the usage patterns too. Our developers commit atrocities in their 'microservices' (which are not micro, or services, but that's another discussion).

I continue to find horror shows during incidents; sometimes not even the cause, merely a tangential rabbit hole I wandered down.

“Are you… are you storing images in BLOBS?”

“Yes. Is that bad?”