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They probably do make more money… actually. At least in net profit. Cost in time to setup a bare metal, production quality k8s cluster with all the bells and w
by withinboredom 3y ago
They probably do make more money… actually. At least in net profit.
Cost in time to setup a bare metal, production quality k8s cluster with all the bells and whistles from the cloud: 2 weeks and a skill I will have forever. In fact, the second cluster took 4 hours.
Monthly cost: $240 per month.
Time to spin up a new worker, using cloud compute for elastic load beyond base load: 5 minutes.
Base load capabilities: 120ish cores, 1tb ram, ridiculous terabytes of storage.
Cost to run on managed k8s in the cloud: $5-20k per month.
- diesal11 3y ago> They probably do make more money… actually. At least in net profit. It's my company so I think I'd know :) Also what exactly are your estimates here? Where are you getting that kind of capacity for $240 a month?
- theamk 3y agoWe are talking lambdas here, not 1TB ram workers. I had to run a authenticated webhook forwarder outside of the out firewall. Yes, I could have made a real machine, but I've made a lambda instead. It's costing us less than $2/month and I spend zero energy on maintenance, security checks, etc. And all config is in a single git repo that anyone can read and understand - there is zero chance of someone ssh'ing into server for a quick fix, then forgetting to record what they did. Real machines are great for heavy loads, but you just cannot beat lambdas for the lightweight stuff.