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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemmy does seem to have enough content and user engagement for my needs. I've noticed engagement going up the past month but wasn't sure I was making that up in my head.

I really haven't felt the need to go back to reddit much. But the niche communities could use a lot more users posting and creating new content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure how the happened haha. Thanks for the call out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me I really like serverless when I'm trying to build a proof of concept or demo for my personal projects. A lot of the services are on the free tier so I've built many APIs with user auth, websockets, and ton of other features for nothing in price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got a lot of AWS stories as a consultant working with many companies migrating or modernizing in AWS. Not sure what would be most interesting to hear. My big screwups are usually fun to talk about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It depends on what you plan on running and how much RAM each VM would potentially need. I run proxmox on my 11th gen NUC with 64GB of RAM, 8 VMs, 1TB nvme for VMs, and 500GB SSD for OS. I have had no problems for my workloads and have a bit more room for more.

 

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Servers or Serverless - Which is better from a cost perspective?

It really depends upon the use case!

From a financial perspective, it’s a rent vs buy decision.

If a system is used sporadically, then serverless is often cheaper.

If a system is used constantly – serverless can be 10 X more expensive!

You can think of it in the same manner as buying a car vs taking an Uber.

For example – if you live in a city and take ten $25 dollar Uber trips per month the cost is $250

The cost of buying a car, fuel, plus insurance and parking could be $1000 - $2000 per month in most cities.

In the above case – it’s cheaper for this individual to use Uber.

But what happens when a person needs six - $20 Uber trips per day? Now that’s $120 dollars per day or $3600 per month.

In this case, it’s far cheaper to buy a car than to take an Uber.

As a bonus to this second scenario, in the end the person still has the car and can continue to drive the car or sell the asset when the payments are finished.

This is essentially the same calculation of server vs serverless on the cloud.

So, which is better from a cost perspective server or serverless?

It depends upon how the systems are used.

If the systems are used infrequently then serverless is often cheaper. If the systems are used consistently then serverless is much more expensive.

Now you have a fundamental understanding of servers and serverless and their costs.

 

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