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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by Negitivefrags on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:36PM (#9214211)
I'm not sure where you see a difference between a VM and physical hardware when it comes to provisioning.

Sure, the physical hardware takes 1 hour rather than 1 minute to spin up, but the process is otherwise entirely identical.

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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by chx on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:56PM (#9214701)
1 hour? Welcome to 2015! OVH spins your server up in two minutes.
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