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The problem is sizing and consistency. When you're small, it's not cost effective to overprovision 2-3 big servers (for HA). And when you need to move fast (or
by turtlebits 1y ago
The problem is sizing and consistency. When you're small, it's not cost effective to overprovision 2-3 big servers (for HA).
And when you need to move fast (or things break), you can't wait a day for a dedicated server to come up, or worse, have your provider run out of capacity (or have to pick a different specced server)
IME, having to go multi cloud/provider is a way worse problem to have.
- matt-p 1y agoThere are a number of providers who provision dedicated servers via API in minutes these days. Given a dedicated server starts at around $90/Month it probably does make sense for alot of people.
- winrid 1y agoA $20 dedicated server from OVH can outperform $144 VPSs from Linode in my testing, on passmark.
- andersmurphy 1y agoMost industries are not bursty. Overprovision in not expensive for most businesses. You can handle 30000+ updates a second on a 15$ VPS. A multi node system tends to be less reliable and more failure points than a single box system. Failures rarely happen in isolation. You can do zero downtime deployment with a single machine if you need to.
- Aeolun 1y ago> A multi node system tends to be less reliable and more failure points than a single box system. Failures rarely happen in isolation. Just like a lot of problems exists between keyboard and chair, a lot of problems exist between service A and service B. The zero downtime deployment for my PHP site consisted of symlinking from one directory to another.
- andersmurphy 1y agoNice! Honestly, we need to stop promoting prematurely making everything a network request as a good idea.
- Nextgrid 1y ago> we need to stop promoting prematurely making everything a network request as a good idea But how are all these "distributed systems engineers" going to get their resume points and jobs?