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Vertical scaling: 192 core server you can get for $2K per month

4 pointsby zttgover 1 year ago
I checked different hosting solutions, and the best server is - 192 cores &#x2F; 384 threads - 1.5TB Ram - 4x10TB PCI4 NVME Storage in Raid-0<p>This is literally a behemoth. Just rent it. Put all your DB, workers, servers, mailers, on this server.<p>While that is stupid, feel free to use it as a CI tool as well! Running 384 docker containers in parallel to check all your puppeteer&#x2F;playwright tests<p>Bonus point, although grey area - run a monero or similar miner in a low priority to cashback 10% of the server cost.<p>Now serious question - why would you need microservices, cloud, kubernetes, lambdas and other fun things at all if you can get it working as a monolith just for $2K (ok, let it be $5K with extras) ???

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DLAover 1 year ago
Doing something like this—add fault tolerance mechanism(s)—and your potential attack surface is exponentially reduced compared to “typical” microservice architectures.<p>There are also potential performance gains because there’s a lot less network hopping around.<p>I’ve done some big data processing using a single big box strategy in the past and it worked very well—as the saying goes, “distribute when you must.”
klysmover 1 year ago
Fault tolerance.