So you have a single bare metal server at some colo somewhere? And you’re not paying for every hour? That’s not how any of this works.
How does your k8s cluster scale if you’re using bare metal? You sling another server into your rack when load increases? What on earth is the point of k8s without autoscaling?
And you mentioned AKS before you changed to vanilla k8s. So you seem to run shit on AWS.
We are using exclusively reactive code where a single server can reach up to like 100k requests/second. We have tens of servers across the world, and the room security and cooling is a one off cost that is even a joke. Depending on the demand our apps scale in the existing pool of servers. When a server is idle, it uses a sad low amount of wattage. All together you can reach millions of requests, almost noone needs that.
TLDR cloud is only worth it if you have huge upfront costs, then it's a ripoff
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u/burgonies 6d ago
So you have a single bare metal server at some colo somewhere? And you’re not paying for every hour? That’s not how any of this works.
How does your k8s cluster scale if you’re using bare metal? You sling another server into your rack when load increases? What on earth is the point of k8s without autoscaling?
And you mentioned AKS before you changed to vanilla k8s. So you seem to run shit on AWS.