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I used to get 18k monthly bill on AWS, moved everything to DO and now it costs me 8k a month. Billing is so much easier to understand now as well. It was k8s to
by codegladiator 7y ago
I used to get 18k monthly bill on AWS, moved everything to DO and now it costs me 8k a month. Billing is so much easier to understand now as well. It was k8s to k8s cluster transfer, so migration wasn't very painful.
- vidarh 7y agoAnd even DO is still quite expensive (though the cheaper alternatives do tend to have limitations - e.g. if you're ok with Europe only Hetzner tends to be far cheaper, but that doesn't work for everyone).
- codegladiator 7y agoThanks but majority of the target audience is in SEA. Also we considered moving to DO only once they had their k8s offering ready. I might have missed it in the search, but seems Hetzner is probably still working on it. Nobody here like to deploy k8s although the tools to do that are super sexy these days.
- vidarh 7y agoHetzner deploys new features very slowly; that's the main issue with them if you're not prepared to roll your own. But certainly for SEA they don't make sense, unless you e.g. have any subsets of functionality that are bandwidth intensive but not latency insensitive (e.g. I used to manage a network that was split between UK, Germany and New Zealand, and we used Hetzner for the German footprint and put anything where latency didn't matter, like bulk e-mailing, there, while customer facing stuff was all in their respective country). For that to be worthwhile you need a quite significant volume though.
- paulddraper 7y agoIf you use k8s, you can shop around more easily. Of course, the flexibility of k8s does come with complexity, so YMMV.
- shiftpgdn 7y agoYou could get that 8k/mo bill down to $500/month with a $8000 hardware purchase and well thought out colocation.
- UncleMeat 7y agoAnd support work. Saving 20k a month is one engineer in expensive markets.