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> Nowadays you can spin up a 128 vCPU VM with 2TB memory on EC2 in minutes, so why bother having lots of separate smaller servers? For 3600$ [0] per month. Spe
by Sebb767 4y ago
> Nowadays you can spin up a 128 vCPU VM with 2TB memory on EC2 in minutes, so why bother having lots of separate smaller servers?
For 3600$ [0] per month. Spending this kind of money makes sense if plan B is to spend man-years optimizing your app or if you have an insanely expensive per-machine license, but otherwise you are better off with multiple servers - not only for price, but especially for availability.
[0] Assuming a c6a.32xlarge in us-east1, with only 256GB of RAM. Dedicated machines are more expensive.
- petercooper 4y agoYeah, but you wouldn't start there. You'd have a 8.. 16.. 32GB VM or whatever with fewer vCPUs until you have thousands of paying customers. It's just that you can get there so vertical scaling becomes a good possibility.