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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by abofh on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:30PM (#22415766)
What's meaningful? It'll cost you a half million to build a full rack, power it and give it connectivity for a year. That's a lot of spot instances if you don't have a constant load
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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by snark42 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @02:23PM (#22416369)
> It'll cost you a half million to build a full rack, power it and give it connectivity for a year.

For $1500/mo you can get half rack (5Kv) and 50 Mbps internet. A couple $5k switches and 6-8 10k servers and you're well under $125k, plus you probably don't need $10k servers or $5k switches and can find cheaper hosting. I realize you said a full rack, but that's probably overkill and could be done for $350k or less. Once you have the servers/switches your fixed costs are relatively low.

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