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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by rplnt on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:34AM (#16021891)
What does a website really do if it does nothing? What money does it consume? What else can you do with the machine it's on? Wouldn't moving VMs around accomplish the same goal?

Sidenote: some customers might use monitoring :)

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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by JoeAltmaier on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:47AM (#16021944)
Cloud providers charge for time VMs are active. So it saves money to de-commission them when idle.
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