Also Gdash[1] and many others

I agree with your sentiment though.

[1] https://github.com/ripienaar/gdash

Try ordering a couple of thousand Rome servers from Dell right now and you might be surprised.

I wonder if your Heroku values, would be more widely known if it had a more generic name

https://gist.github.com/adamwiggins/5687294

Again, like 12factor, it's a collection of themes from around the internet but it also has stood the test of time.

8x is close to the top end, somewhere between 3x and 10x depending on a number of factors, mostly scale.

For the record I factor in:

  - Hardware depreciation (36mo)
  - Power
  - People 
  - DC rent + power
  - software licences / support

for on premise.

What we see now is that compute is dropping in price for on prem every year and density is improving. AMD Rome brings incredibly bang for your buck when buying at significant scale.

But it's not comparing Apples with Apples.

It's virtually impossible to accurately factor in the opportunity cost of doing all this yourself but you can potentially hire a bunch of engineers with the savings of going on prem, ymmv

You can never ever recreate the developer experience on prem regardless of your scale, on you can tell if on prem is good enough

It's difficult to put a value on being to pay as you go or suddenly be serving workloads out of a geo close to your users in Cloud where on prem there is always a lead time

Finally whilst the developer experience is better suddenly having to deal with new challenges takes a while to adjust in Cloud, outages out of your control, non predictable performance, poor support, no access to your hardware

TLDR: Cost is hard to define and isn't a zero sum game

Curious if you tested POC for simple COE?

Melatonin is now available from Chemists. You need to do a short online consultation but other than that it’s straight forward to buy

It’s not permitted to be sold by chemists in the UK. If so it would be an over-the-counter medicine.

Rather, it looks some online chemists skirt around the rules by having an “online doctor” issue you with a prescription. But the UK-based ones I found were very expensive and it is surely cheaper just to import from the US via eBay etc.

biovea.com ships it to the UK.

biovea are good

Looks great, would love and use something like this for GCP

Google Cloud actually has some good new graphs (they are under billing => reports). Additionally they offer a monthly billing overview e-mail which you should already be receiving.

Absolutely, we are already looking into. We are also looking into providing reports that can support multiple cloud providers.

Virtualised control plane is totally fine. Next step is containerised OpenStack.

Pros:

- economy of scale, if you are large enough OS is very cost effective - OSS - No vendor lock in

Cons:

- Complexity - Lack of features and higher level abstractions v public cloud

How much of the price Cut I should be expecting If I am planning for vms with total capacity 1000 cores.

Definitely ahead of their time, Openstack wasn't formed until 2010