Re:You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
by perrygeo on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:09PM
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> The whole point of cloud computing is the on-demand scalability.
True, my system is fairly static. But it scales when I need it. As mentioned, it's for my personal use. "on-demand scalability" is a bullshit buzzword in this context. My goal was to buy a machine capable of several specific tasks.
> That 64 core server is probably sitting nearly idle most of the time > ... plex media server > ... encoding > ... game servers > ... that instance is going to be off 20+ hours a day.
Not those tasks :-) I have no trouble maxxing out my disk IO and memory, slightly more challenging to keep my CPU busy but it's keeping an average load of 4-8.
If you can't keep a machine busy, just turn it off. Simple as that. I would not have bought such a beast if I didn't have a plan keep it busy!
That 64 core server is probably sitting nearly idle most of the time. You don’t just spin up big systems on AWS and leave them idle. The whole point of cloud computing is the on-demand scalability.
You can basically spend nothing until a request comes in, and most hobby projects are low traffic.
For example, I found a project that runs plex media server encoding jobs as Kubernetes pods: https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex
When you’re not encoding anything, you’re not running much compute.
I think I’ve heard of game servers that wait for players to attempt to connect before starting the instance. If all you’re doing is playing a multiplayer game with friends that instance is going to be off 20+ hours a day.
Still, I haven’t done any napkin math on what applications represent cost savings.