Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
by arp242 on Friday March 22, 2019 @09:04PM
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Well, $25 is 5 times as much as $5, so if the costs scale at a similar level then your $500 hosting costs will end up being $2,500 which, depending on your business, may or may not be a significant cost.
Back when I worked for a hosting company specializing in RoR we had more than a few customers migrate to us because Heroku costs were getting out of hand (and we weren't all that cheap either!)
In my specific case I'm prototyping what could perhaps be a startup, and with a few small cheap Linode VPS's I can get a lot of bang for my buck.
> Do you know how much it cost my employer for me to spend an hour reading about Kubernetes?
A lot, which is why you shouldn't use it. You can run a VPS without k8s.
Back when I worked for a hosting company specializing in RoR we had more than a few customers migrate to us because Heroku costs were getting out of hand (and we weren't all that cheap either!)
In my specific case I'm prototyping what could perhaps be a startup, and with a few small cheap Linode VPS's I can get a lot of bang for my buck.
> Do you know how much it cost my employer for me to spend an hour reading about Kubernetes?
A lot, which is why you shouldn't use it. You can run a VPS without k8s.