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Anyone else feel like they'd rather have their dedicated server slow down instead of wrack up a $30k debt? This is this nightmare I envisioned with cloud servi
by RobertRoberts 8y ago
Anyone else feel like they'd rather have their dedicated server slow down instead of wrack up a $30k debt?
This is this nightmare I envisioned with cloud services, a client gets hit really hard, and I have to pass the bill on to them.
This reminds me variable rate mortgages.
With dedicated hardware, you may end up with performance issues, but never a ghastly business-ending bill. How does anyone justify this risk? I really don't understand the cloud at all for such high cost resources with literally unlimited/unpredictable pricing.
Can someone explain this risk/reward scenario here?
- Spivak 8y agoYou use dedicated hardware with manual or semi-automated scaling until you're big enough to want unlimited and green enough to eat a large bill knowing that you still made a profit.
- flukus 8y ago> How does anyone justify this risk? I'm more concerned about the risk mitigation strategies (capping) I'm seeing advocated. If your servers being pegged you've only got a few customers missing out while it's pegged, maybe even everyone getting service but sub-optimally. You can ride out the wave and everything goes back to normal. Putting caps in place is like pulling the plug out of the server after the CPU has been at 100% for 5 minutes and not plugging it in until the next billing cycle.
- chillacy 8y agoI don’t know what kind of load you expect but web servers don’t just slow down linearly forever: at some point when traffic exceeds capacity, queues fill up, memory maxes out, and all requests grind to a halt with enough load. The way out is scaling horizontally, and you want to do that at some point before you end up sending 503s to the load balancer.