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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 block…

Thanks for sharing!

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 n…

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 hi…

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, b…

Not every use case is more efficient on the cloud

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.c…

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 t…

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 Ed…

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.

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