On: CamelCamelCamel: $44.6k disk failure, down until F...

[latch]

I wonder what their dedicated hosting bill would have looked like compared to both cloud and colo.

My guess is that it would have been a tiny fraction of their cloud bill, and their downtime would have been a smal fraction of the colo downtime.

[jonatron → latch]

You can spec an OVH server with 14x3.8TB SSDs for roughly $2800/month.