Not sure what you are using, the hardware would be around $40 per month for that kind of network architecture (FW,HAProxy,Nginx,...).
The LBs you're talking about are software. I was referring to hardware solutions; a soft load balancer is still a good solution, but brings back to the problem I've made before - unit granularity.
Do you refer to two (two is the minimum required for HA purposes) dedicated load balancing machines, or mixed services?
In the former case, metal is not very convenient, as the minimal unit even for a pure LB machine, is still expensive.
In the latter case, it's hard to say, buy I think there is plenty of middle ground between a small startup and Amazon, where the cloud granularity is helpful and cost-effective (I'm not implying that it's generally cheaper than metal, though).
The LBs you're talking about are software. I was referring to hardware solutions; a soft load balancer is still a good solution, but brings back to the problem I've made before - unit granularity.
Do you refer to two (two is the minimum required for HA purposes) dedicated load balancing machines, or mixed services?
In the former case, metal is not very convenient, as the minimal unit even for a pure LB machine, is still expensive.
In the latter case, it's hard to say, buy I think there is plenty of middle ground between a small startup and Amazon, where the cloud granularity is helpful and cost-effective (I'm not implying that it's generally cheaper than metal, though).