How can I calculate costs of deploying 1000 instances of Drupal?

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What are the things that should I investigate for making an estimate of the cost of deploying 1000 instances of Drupal, for example?

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This is all about bringing a SaaS platform. Is there anything else I should take in consideration?

How can I know how many "instances" would be able to run in a single host? Much like a Shared Hosting

Would Amazon EC2 / Google / Azure be cheaper than having dedicated servers?

Would you like us to write a business plan too or should we just plan a VC round? — chicks, Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 0:49
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Biggles · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-15 10:51:29Z

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In reply to 'Would Amazon EC2 / Google / Azure be cheaper than having dedicated servers?'

I've done a lot of investigating into this and in every case they are NOT.

80 Linux servers running 24h/365 - annual cost: Total cost per year Google £37,515.46 AWS £29,196.53

These costs do NOT include data transfer.

You can buy a dedicated cloud appliance for less than £50k, fully supported, that will run more servers and last you 3 years (min).

answered Jun 15, 2017 at 10:51

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