Comment on Deploying Nextcloud on AWS ECS with Pulumi
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 1 week agoWell yeah, wouldn’t break the bank, but a conservative cost estimate (without considering network costs, for example, quite relevant for a data intensive app) would bring this setup to about $40/month. That is about 5 times more expensive than a VPC with 4x the resources.
OP said this is some sort of “enterprise self-hosting” solution, which I guess then kind of makes sense. For a company providing nextcloud as a service I would never vendor lock myself and let AWS take a huge chunk of my revenue forever, but I can imagine folks have different opinions.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
An $8 VPS would not be sufficient for a heavily used multi-user Nextcloud instance, and it wouldn’t come with enough storage either.
You could cloud host this thing for less absolutely, but not a whole lot less. I have a Vultr VPS (cheaper than Digital Ocean, Linode, and other cheapo VPS providers) and all it does is reverse proxy and do some caching and it’s scraping by at a total of $24 a month. A $40 solution that’s more functional if not over-engineered for the difference in price equivalence to a Netflix subscription is not that huge a deal.
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 1 week ago
But the estimation is with each NC instance with half a CPU and 1GB of memory. This is a super conservative estimation, that doesn’t include anything besides a tiny Fargate deployment and Aurora instances.
For a heavily used NC instance (assuming a company offering it as a service), the cost is going to become massive pretty fast.
Also, as I side note, if a company is offering NC as a service, but doesn’t manage a single piece of NC deployment… What is the company product? And most importantly, how are they going to make money when AWS is going to eat a linearly scalable chunk of their revenue forever?