A million-dollar engineering problem
A friend of mine was annoyed that a small service he liked was shutting down.<p>He contacted the developer who said that they were shutting it down because the server costs were higher than the money they were making.<p>They were spending 5k a month on AWS crap and claimed it was impossible to get any lower.<p>He helped them consolidate everything onto a single rented dedicated server costing 400 a month. Now the service is profitable, and will stay up.<p>It runs <i>way</i> faster on the single server. It also has required less maintenance after the move too.<p>This kind of shit is everywhere. At this point simply not using AWS is a competitive advantage.