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You don't think this happens on prem? Servers running an application that is no longer used? Sure they're probably VMs but their cost isn't 0 either
by hvb2 1y ago
You don't think this happens on prem? Servers running an application that is no longer used?
Sure they're probably VMs but their cost isn't 0 either
- sgarland 1y agoWith that model, your cost doesn't change, though. When/if you find you need more resources, you can (if you haven't been doing so) audit existing applications to clear out cruft before you purchase more hardware.
- remus 1y agoThat's the equivalent of saying "just audit your cloud usage and remove stuff that's no longer used".
- hvb2 1y agoThe cost of going through that list often outweighs the cost of the hardware, by a lot. And in a lot of cases it's hard to find out if a production application can be switched off. Since the cost is typically small for an unused application, I don't know if there are many people willing to risk being wrong
- sgarland 1y agoPeople always say stuff like this, and I just don’t buy it. It’s not that hard to analyze network traffic to see what does and doesn’t have active connections. When you’re relatively certain, shut it off for a week. If no one screams, delete it. If a month later someone is screaming, it’s their own damn fault for having no docs on something idle 90% of the time.
- hvb2 1y agoI've done many things that got new data ingested on a monthly basis. So say 29 days out of every month they would be idle. Is it worth starting and stopping those kind of things? Probably not? If you turn off a VM running something like that, because you didn't see any traffic for a day. Are you going to explain how you just shut it down to save a few dollars a month? I would very much like to see how that unfolds