_bare_metal

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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   I run https://BareMetalSavings.com . The amount of companies who use K8s when they have no business nor technological justification for it is staggering. It is the number one blocker in moving to bare metal/on prem when cos
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   Thanks for sharing!
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   Plugging https://BareMetalSavings.com in case you want to ballpark-estimate your move off of the cloud Bonus points: I'm a Fastmail customer, so it tangentially tracks ---- Quick note about the article: ZFS encryption can b
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   This. I run BareMetalSavings.com[0], a toy for ballpark-estimating bare-metal/cloud savings, and the companies that have it hardest to move away from the cloud are those who are highly dependent on Kubernetes. It's great for the d
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   The first FAQ question addresses exactly that: colocation costs are added to every bare metal item (even storage drives). Note that this doesn't intend to be used for accounting, but for estimating, and it's good at that. If anyth
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   Not every use case is more efficient on the cloud
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   HBM or not, those latest server chips are crazy fast and efficient. You can probably condense 8 servers from just a few years ago into one latest-gen Epyc. I run BareMetalSavings.com[0], a toy for ballpark-estimating bare-metal/cloud s
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   To expand on this, I run BareMetalSavings.com[0] and the most common cause of people staying with the cloud is it's very hard for them to maintain their own K8S cluster(s), which they want to keep because they're great for any non
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   by _bare_metal 2y ago

   Out of curiosity, why not go bare metal in a managed colocation? Is that for the geographic spread? Or unpredictable load? Every few months of this spend is like buying a server Edit: back at my pc and checked, relevant bare metal is ~$500&
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    by _bare_metal 2y ago

    Yes, bare metal is not a panacea. Some use cases require 0 personnel change going bare metal (even having reduced labor), and some are very much the opposite.
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    by _bare_metal 2y ago

    Indeed. Shameless plug of a toy I built that lets you see the price difference : https://baremetalsavings.com
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    Bare Metal Savings(baremetalsavings.com)

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