Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by caspii on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:39AM (#24372312)

I'v added this paragraph to the article:

the servers are oversized for the load we're currently seeing. The reason for that is that we tried to solve a production issue by increasing the server specs. It didn't solve the problem, and now we can't down-size the servers without re-provisioning them ️.

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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by pastage on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:51AM (#24372388)

I have found the same with digital ocean it is hard to down size but that is only true because I have so much unicorn data, and a move has become very painfull, so I'm stuck paying for 2x the storage cost.

You should really learn to add new servers by provisioning them and remove the old servers. Your app seems a perfect fit for it for moving between servers.

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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by mkesper on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:44AM (#24372337)

But as they are redundant this should be a no-brainer?

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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by IanCal on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:29PM (#24379522)

What's the problem with reprovisioning? Don't you have two that you're switching between?

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