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> If anyone has a solution that is actually simpler and just as easy to set up, I'm very much interested. Sure. @levelsio runs Nomad List (~100k MRR) all on a
by AlchemistCamp 7y ago
> If anyone has a solution that is actually simpler and just as easy to set up, I'm very much interested.
Sure. @levelsio runs Nomad List (~100k MRR) all on a single Linode VPS. He uses their automated backups service, but it's a simple setup. No k8s, no Docker, just some PHP running on a Linux server.
As I understand it, he was learning to code as he built his businesses.
https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1177562806192730113 https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1177562806192730113
- icedchai 7y agoMany startups are not as resource efficient. The ones I am familiar with spend 50%+ of their MRR on cloud costs.
- p_l 7y agoMy first production k8s use was actually due to resource efficiencies. We looked at the >50 applications we had to serve, the technical debt that would lead us down the road of building customized distribution to avoid package requirements incompabilties, and various other things, and decided to go with containers - just to avoid the conflicts involved. Thanks to k8s, we generally keep to 1/5th of the original cost, thanks to bin packing of servers, and sleep sounder thanks to automatic restarts of failed pods, ability to easily allocate computing resources per container, globall configure load balancing (we had to scratch use of cloud-provider's load balancer because our number of paths was too big for URL mapping API). Everything can be moved to pretty much every k8s hosting that runs 1.15, biggest difference would be hooking the load balancer to the external network and possibly storage.
- AlchemistCamp 7y agoThat's very surprising to me! As an employee at multiple startups in multiple countries, I've never seen cloud costs anywhere near payroll.
- icedchai 7y agoWell, I said 50% of monthly revenue, not total costs.
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