Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
by lumost on Friday March 22, 2019 @10:18PM
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at 5x the cost of 10k/year in infrastructure spend, Heroku is significantly less than a dedicated DevOps team. however, If you're product is backups as a service and you'll need 100PB of storage, then Heroku is probably not the best option.
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> at 5x the cost of 10k/year in infrastructure spend, Heroku is significantly less than a dedicated DevOps team.
How do these costs scale with 10x or 100x the traffic/load?
At 100x the traffic the business would be at 5 million dollars a year in spend, and would exceed the standard pricing model of Heroku. The business can then
1) Negotiate with Heroku for an enterprise contract 2) Consider migrating to a more cost effective platform 3) Dedicate time home-growing a solution.
Part of the reason Heroku charges so much is because their customers are typically small, but they'd likely rather find a price that keeps you on their platform vs. home-growing a solution.