> a typical enterprise SaaS startup gets more traffic during work hours than on weekends.
You still need to budget what you can get if renting dedicated hardware vs. renting virtual machines. For eg. a Dual Xeon X5670 machine w/ 96GB RAM and 4x480GB SSD can be had for $249 per month (just something random I found for demo purposes). Even if you do a reserved instance for a year on EC2, you can get a m3.2xlarge for this kind of money, and that's only 30GB RAM and 2x80GB SSD.
It might worth it to rent this sort of iron instead of spinning up and down EC2 instances especially if you can reasonably buy a large enough machine to cut a lot of headaches arising from distributed computing. The right tool for the job.
You still need to budget what you can get if renting dedicated hardware vs. renting virtual machines. For eg. a Dual Xeon X5670 machine w/ 96GB RAM and 4x480GB SSD can be had for $249 per month (just something random I found for demo purposes). Even if you do a reserved instance for a year on EC2, you can get a m3.2xlarge for this kind of money, and that's only 30GB RAM and 2x80GB SSD.
It might worth it to rent this sort of iron instead of spinning up and down EC2 instances especially if you can reasonably buy a large enough machine to cut a lot of headaches arising from distributed computing. The right tool for the job.
Owning hardware is again a different bag of hurt.