there are dozens, if not hundreds of smaller TRUE managed hosting providers popping up to service these kinds of accounts. that's what my startup does. we routinely steal large $5k-50k/month accounts from AWS and rackspace and softlayer (IBM) and the like. they just do a shitty job for an exorbitant price, plain and simple.
folks... NOBODY gives a fuck about you at those companies, and you better believe it. not the account manager, not the engineer working on your 5 day old ticket, not the sales guy who probably isn't even paid a decent commission, and certainly not the executive management who is pulling down 300k+/year annual salaries plus huge stock grants and bonuses (check out the SEC filings!)
a well managed cluster of computing equipment running baremetal operating systems, hypervisors of your choice, and maybe something like openstack or docker is both profitable for the vendor and a MASSIVE price reduction for the customer.
if you know what you're doing, you're spending $10k/month for $100k/month worth of equivalent amazon services. yes, you heard me right. it is an order of magnitude of cost savings.
once you scale past $10k/month, using amazon for all your needs is an INCREDIBLY STUPID business decision.
the genius of AWS, of course, is that they disguise all their marketing as technical spec sheets and deliberately design their collateral and sales process to appeal to the "engineer" types with acronyms, numbers, and highly specific jargon.
it's quite clever. but not clever enough to fool everyone. and those that are fooled, learn eventually that maybe paying 300% more than you should isn't that smart.
I agree. AWS has got to the be worst scam ever. But they're clever, I admit with all their jargon. They give you a pricing calculator but have so many caveats that it's so hard to compute the true price of what you're buying (not to mention the nickel and diming. a cent per I/O cycle or something? what does that even MEAN?)
Disclaimer: Been using OVH for the past year. Sure, there's downtime (like 1 hour every couple of months), but it's so cheap I can afford a lot of redundancy.
I'm interested in knowing more since we do development and system integration for client in this kind of budget, and we didn't find a decent hosting provider in years of trying. Could you name some of those managed providers, including the one you work for?
folks... NOBODY gives a fuck about you at those companies, and you better believe it. not the account manager, not the engineer working on your 5 day old ticket, not the sales guy who probably isn't even paid a decent commission, and certainly not the executive management who is pulling down 300k+/year annual salaries plus huge stock grants and bonuses (check out the SEC filings!)
a well managed cluster of computing equipment running baremetal operating systems, hypervisors of your choice, and maybe something like openstack or docker is both profitable for the vendor and a MASSIVE price reduction for the customer.
if you know what you're doing, you're spending $10k/month for $100k/month worth of equivalent amazon services. yes, you heard me right. it is an order of magnitude of cost savings. once you scale past $10k/month, using amazon for all your needs is an INCREDIBLY STUPID business decision.
the genius of AWS, of course, is that they disguise all their marketing as technical spec sheets and deliberately design their collateral and sales process to appeal to the "engineer" types with acronyms, numbers, and highly specific jargon.
it's quite clever. but not clever enough to fool everyone. and those that are fooled, learn eventually that maybe paying 300% more than you should isn't that smart.