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So whose going to sign up to be on call 24/7 when your physical hardware breaks?
by debaserab2 6y ago
So whose going to sign up to be on call 24/7 when your physical hardware breaks?
- bob1029 6y agoPaying for someone to manage the hardware is included in my assumptions. If you are asking "who would consider the role?" the answer is - Anyone who wants the money. Who fixes Amazon's shit when it breaks at 3AM?
- debaserab2 6y agoAmazon Employees. Not me or my co-workers.
- ddorian43 6y agoWho pays their wage ? You do by overpaying 20x+ for your vps.
- debaserab2 6y agoOne FTE that does on-call system engineering is wayyyy more expensive than a fleet of 20 vm's. Not to mention the cost of hardware itself. I know there's a threshold where the cost benefit works in favor of on prem, but it's nowhere near most 20 node k8s clusters.
- ddorian43 6y ago> One FTE that does on-call system engineering is wayyyy more expensive than a fleet of 20 vm's. Not to mention the cost of hardware itself. Note that rented dedicated servers are 20x cheaper. What you're talking about, colocation, is 50x cheaper.
- debaserab2 6y agoYou're not really out of the weeds when it comes to dedicated servers either. You still need an on call resource to manage the software in that scenario.