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Is it really an actual issue? How often do you restart instances or scale up horizontally? A cheap 10 years old desktop PC can easily handle all the traffic a
by gf000 2y ago
Is it really an actual issue? How often do you restart instances or scale up horizontally?
A cheap 10 years old desktop PC can easily handle all the traffic a medium-sized website generates at all times.
- pylua 2y agoWhat do you define as medium size?
- gf000 2y agoStackoverflow famously ran on a single, although quite beefy server PC for a long time (not any longer, but not for performance reasons AFAIK). I think it's a good data point to have to scale your workload to stackoverflow's, and reconsider the hardware costs. (Obviously horizontal scaling has its place, but if it's that variably scalable, maybe there are better solutions, e.g. a single bigger instance -- often times even for cheaper)