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Reminds me of a time, we had a new site that was going to run on GCP, we had been using a couple co-located servers for years. When everything was moved to pro

Reminds me of a time, we had a new site that was going to run on GCP, we had been using a couple co-located servers for years. When everything was moved to production, URL went live, nobody ever did any kind of bandwidth checking, caching, no CDN, no cost tracking. $10,000 in our first week. That's about 1/4 what our total spend on the co-located servers was for the whole year. Boss flipped his lid and wanted to kill the new guy who was on the project. After about 2 years we got rid of all the co-located stuff and were spending about 1.5x, but we had more apps, they served heavier pages, etc.

dijit 5y ago
1.5x is pretty good. We overspent quite heavily on our on-prem stuff for a game I helped launch, for political reasons the next game ended up running on the cloud. The price was roughly 10x before discounts. With our heavy discounts and a wide amount of slimming down/cost optimisation (easily 3 months of work) we got it to 2.3x There will always be a need for sysadmins/cloudops/devops for that environment, so we didn't save any headcount either. I can't imagine getting anywhere close to parity in costs, Functions-as-a-service ended up costing more than compute instances too so we went back to compute instances in places where we thought we'd get away from it. That said, it was a lot nicer to use!
hogrider 5y ago
Awful toxic boss.