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But at an 8:1 price, why not just over-provision by 4x and save 50% of your HW budget? How many people really have situations where the difference between peak
by eloff 8y ago
But at an 8:1 price, why not just over-provision by 4x and save 50% of your HW budget? How many people really have situations where the difference between peak and trough is that extreme? It's way better to have the capacity sitting idle than to be scaling it up and down, not to mention it will help smooth out tail latency to be over-provisioned by that much too.
- cobookman 8y agoIt's not that uncommon actually. E-commerce, viral, social media, news are all examples.
- akvadrako 8y agoBecause maybe you have a 1M:1 peak/idle traffic ratio, for example if customers run once-daily batch jobs.
- zaarn 8y agoIf you run all your customer's daily batch jobs at the same time, I hope you charge extra for that time slot. I'd simply spread out these jobs over time and have customers pay to get specific timeslots, which you can fill costs for the baremetal servers. And when not in direct use, you can surely find something else for the server to run on it's CPU (or simply put it in standby and do WoL when needed).