Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
by dx034 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:45AM
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Autoscaling is overused anyway. It's cheaper and much less complex to have 200-300% of average capacity running 24/7 on dedicated servers (OVH/Hetzner, whatever) than trying to scale up and down according to demand.
Changing capacity automatically always has the potential to backfire. And as AWS & Co need to keep those servers running during times of less demand there's no way it's cheaper unless you have really unusual traffic patterns (even then it's probably not).
Changing capacity automatically always has the potential to backfire. And as AWS & Co need to keep those servers running during times of less demand there's no way it's cheaper unless you have really unusual traffic patterns (even then it's probably not).