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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by MattyMc on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:32AM (#25373477)
> writing as somebody who runs a big collection of bare-metal hypervisors for ISP infrastructure purposes.

I run a cloud SaaS company (3 employees). If I had the skillset that it sounds like you do, I might be inclined to hose on bare metal. But I don't. I don't know what a 1U dual socket server is.

It would take me some time to build these skills, and to match the agility that the cloud offers. I don't think it's worth my time, and probably not the author's time, either.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by walrus01 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:47AM (#25373621)
absolutely an understandable concern. One way of abstracting away the need to own or maintain physical servers while still achieving a definitive fixed monthly cost is to do as this other commenter has done, renting dedicated servers from a company that specializes in such:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372912

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