I’d like to thank the admins for being so open and direct about the issues that they’re facing.

  • Yep. And if you want to really save some cash and don’t mind getting a little crazy, use an EKS node orchestrator that supports spot instances. I’m starting to do a serious dive into Harness at the moment actually.

    Google recently released a white paper on cost saving in kubernetes as well.

    • If you’ve got a kubernetes cluster running on 10 different spot instances, isn’t there a risk that all ten could be revoked at the same time? Even if they are built out across regions and availability zones?

      • Counterargument: I don’t need Lemmy to have 100% uptime. It’s not a corporate service and while – obviously – if it’s down all the time I would eventually move on, I’m not going to fault a not-for-profit entity for periodic failures.