I literally benchmarked an application I've written on a €34 euro dedicated server to 480 requests per second. Which comes out at 1,244,160,000 requests per month. If I ever reach a level anywhere near that renting a few more to provide reliability and failover would again be reasonably cheap.
This all comes while keeping the data on servers belonging to EU companies. Using Cloud servers is rather dodgy as shown by the fact Google Analytics, Google Fonts, etc are all illegal.
Everyone keeps talking about the ease of just getting a new server and not having to spend time repairing servers. This is an over sold problem. How often have we ever dealt with hardware problems 8-10 years ago? I only remember one server going down because of hardware issues that cause problems all the other times there were failover servers and the hardware issues were fixed by datacentre staff before anyone even noticed there was an issue in the first place. With tools like ansible and chef, you can provision a new server super quickly so even if the server gets a corrupt configure of whatever, you can just wipe the server and rebuild.
Most of us are not at the scale where we would realsitically see the benefits of cloud computing for hosting.
This all comes while keeping the data on servers belonging to EU companies. Using Cloud servers is rather dodgy as shown by the fact Google Analytics, Google Fonts, etc are all illegal.
Everyone keeps talking about the ease of just getting a new server and not having to spend time repairing servers. This is an over sold problem. How often have we ever dealt with hardware problems 8-10 years ago? I only remember one server going down because of hardware issues that cause problems all the other times there were failover servers and the hardware issues were fixed by datacentre staff before anyone even noticed there was an issue in the first place. With tools like ansible and chef, you can provision a new server super quickly so even if the server gets a corrupt configure of whatever, you can just wipe the server and rebuild.
Most of us are not at the scale where we would realsitically see the benefits of cloud computing for hosting.