We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
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Re: We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
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Re: We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
#3Not really.
You didn't factor in the time it takes to manage k3s yourself versus GKE which is managed.
Re: We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
#448.08 USD per month on a single-node GKE cluster w/ 2 cores 4 gigs -> 15.34 USD per month Hetzner VPS w/ 4 cores 8 gigs.
Re: We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
#5I predict hard times for GCP as they will get squeezed by Amazon and Azure, plus the kind of belt-tightening we see here.
Re: We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
#6Not really. You didn't factor in the time it takes to manage k3s yourself versus GKE which is managed.
Maybe it is a very simple setuo
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#7It's wild to me that we are talking about a site running on a single 2 core VPS costing $15/mo and the developer didn't stop to consider that maybe they don't need Kubernetes for this. Like...just run your damn services on the box like we've been doing since web hosting first became a thing.
Re: We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
#8Not really. You didn't factor in the time it takes to manage k3s yourself versus GKE which is managed.
Probably. But it was only a single command to get up a k3s node - not much difference in effort for a relatively low-workload, low-critical service.
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#9Not really. You didn't factor in the time it takes to manage k3s yourself versus GKE which is managed.
Self management could be expensive if it’s actually going to burn hours of dev time.
At teensy scale is k3s really gonna take much “management” after the bring-up? I don’t think so.
For a teensy team, it seems totally worth it to take a runway from 12 months to 40 months for the price of a few afternoon’s work.
Re: We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
#10I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.