Re:Docker not ready for primetime
by tinco on Sunday August 28, 2016 @05:44PM
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Not everyone can afford to vertically scale. Those 24 servers of StackExchange together cost more than the average 100 machine 'small' cluster. At Digital Ocean the performance sweetspot probably lies at the $20/mo machine, so that's 2000$/mo for a 100 machine cluster. You think StackExchange pays less than that for their hardware?
Also, some sites are simply larger than StackExchange, and you never heard of them. There's a huge spectrum between StackExchange and Google.
Re:Docker not ready for primetime
by chx on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:22AM
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There's some truth in that, the site I mentioned in 2010 was running DB servers with 144GB of RAM -- unlike SE we rented servers, the colo numbers didn't look good.
Also, some sites are simply larger than StackExchange, and you never heard of them. There's a huge spectrum between StackExchange and Google.