On: Microsoft Azure Outage

[hardware2win]

Ive used gcp and ive been billed like 10% of minimal wage for setting GCPs demo with like 7 very simple microservices (i dont remember exactly) 4 times and every of them was running like 5 minutes after being deployed and then project was killed

Shit is expensive as hell

For the same money I could rent some weak linux box for a year

Or something decent for a month

Edit 10ms

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo

[dachryn → hardware2win]

what you show there should cost like 300/month to run. Its very transparent pricing, its just bad that the tutorial doesn't mention that.

You do realize what you setup in that tutorial right? A kubernetes cluster with 11 full scale microservices that are dimensioned so they can serve the average medium size business. For only a hobby this is huuuuuuugely overdimensioned.

If you were to do the same on azure, it would cost more. If you are comparing it to a cheap linux box, what the hell are you using kubernetes clusters for then?

[hardware2win → dachryn]

>what you show there should cost like 300/month to run

Ive ran it for 4 times miltiplied by 5minutes + time needed for it to wake up

All im saying is that it is expensive for such a small usage

[cube00 → dachryn]

> You do realize what you setup in that tutorial right?

Sure, buyer beware but is it reasonable that a clearly marked demo project is set up with services to that level of resourcing?

Nobody is going to take a demo like that and start running a business off it tomorrow.

[hobo_mark → hardware2win]

I have to wonder what you were doing, I've been continuously hosting my own projects there for years and with the free tier they cost pennies per month to run.

[hardware2win → hobo_mark]

Ive linked the GCPs demo repo that Ive been messing with

[gerdesj → hobo_mark]

"and with the free tier they cost pennies per month"

Is it free or not?

[hobo_mark → gerdesj]

You pay for the resources you use above the free tier limits. My bill for this month so far is 30 cents because I deployed frequently and my docker artifact storage size (with several years worth of deployments) dipped above the limit. Then I added a periodic job to clear out unused docker images older than one year and I'm running for free again.

[Yuioup → hardware2win]

Dude, you blindly ran some random code on a metered cloud service.

If somebody gives you keys to a Ferrari, don't blame the manufacturer when you drive it off a cliff at 120 miles/hour...

[hardware2win → Yuioup]

Its not random code, it is GCPs demo code. And im just saying that it is expensive for such a small usage

Ferrari analogy would be something like being billed 100usd for 1min ride

[ZeroCool2u → hardware2win]

This is one of the single most comprehensively intense demo projects I've ever seen. I did a multi day AWS Data Lab for work once and it wasn't this comprehensive.