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The reality at scale is that all cloud VMs are preemptible and unreliable. You can pay more to increase the probability of uptime but inevitably have to recover
by pushrax 5y ago
The reality at scale is that all cloud VMs are preemptible and unreliable. You can pay more to increase the probability of uptime but inevitably have to recover from failure sometimes.
- junon 5y agoThis is absolutely the correct way of thinking about this problem, and exactly how most people I've seen successfully use pre-empt instances treat them as well.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThe reality is itselt preemptible and unreliable, you could be terminated without notice