Colocating one's own server? Second-hand servers from eBay are incredibly cheap for the power and colocation space is usually very cost effective (or find someone who has extra space in their rack & sublet!)
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I agree with you, and that's how I host my own site, but I'm interested in the economics of 'halfway to the cloud' and how it has changed in the past seven years
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Some new good options nowadays are Hetzner (specifically their 'server bidding'), and Dacentec.
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Curiously, that spreadsheet states 'flat rate' for AWS. Was that really the case back in 2012? Because nowadays they will absolutely screw you on traffic costs, at $50-$100/TB.
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