> But when we are talking about multiple redundant servers with load balancing across them, you really need to justify the cost of that vs the value you squeeze

> But when we are talking about multiple redundant servers with load balancing across them, you really need to justify the cost of that vs the value you squeeze out. Sometimes you can justify using a thing for the wrong reasons. I recently attached 1x NLB to each of our Swarm clusters to migrate to automatically managed certificates directly attached to the NLB (Digital Ocean). $COMPANY has maybe ~3 users accessing each production application at a time. So the NLB itself is utterly pointless. But Engineering no longer have to fix the certificates each quarter after users see an insecure browser warning and email us about it. 100% worth it for $12 pcm (per swarm cluster).