I am sorry if you feel offended, shubla, but you started with the aggressive tone.
I am in no way calling you stupid, i am sure you are far from stupid.
As Granger outlined, i am calling you clueless, because you aren't an expert with the topic we are talking about, i am.
I'll try to be constructive and enlighten you.
shubla wrote:Its not best nor the cheapest option really for such a small company as seatribe. Its maybe the worst option.
Buying a server is always the best economical option, it is like buying a car vs renting a car.
Rented servers are low quality low specs and runs on mutualized infrastructure stacks, they suck.
With the lifespan of server hardware, which is usually 3 to 5 years, the rented option costs you 2 to 3 times the price of a server. you'd have bought.
shubla wrote:What if something breaks? You have to pay it, and overall, take care that the server hardware is running without problems.
DELL and HP servers comes with onsite warranty. Depending on the workload and how critical you server is, you'd buy the 4 hours warranty, or next business day one.
shubla wrote:You also have to upgrade the hardware every now and then, something that you wouldn't have to worry about if you just rent a dedicated server.
The aren't many upgrades you could do on a server.
It's either add more RAM, or add more disks, both of these operation are easy and could be done by my 8 year old son.
Your point is not valid, with rented servers, you'd still have to worry abouyt upgrading = paying more.
shubla wrote:There are plenty of dedicated servers with SSD possibilities these days, been for years. I dont see how things that you said about professional servers and old grumpy databases running are relevant to the discussion in any means.
You are wrong, less than 5% of servers use SSD for main storage.
It's frequently a RAID1 of 2x 256GB SSD to boot a virtualized server with VMWARE, Hyper-V or Openstack, then RAID5 or RAID6 arrays of SAS 10k or 15k rpm disks.
On SAN arrays, you can find some
SSD caching, which is not SSD main storage.