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Cloud is not right for every workload or company. There is a lot that should be on-prem or coho in a datacenter. You are not always saving money on cloud and this is good proof of that.

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>We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised that they've been even better than originally estimated. For 2024, we've brought the cloud bill down from the original $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million. That's a saving of almost two million dollars per year for our setup! The reason it's more than our original estimate of $7 million over five years is that we got away with putting all the new hardware into our existing data center racks and power limits.

Cloud is not right for every workload or company. There is a lot that should be on-prem or coho in a datacenter. You are not always saving money on cloud and this is good proof of that. Archive: https://archive.today/4quyQ From the post: >>We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised that they've been even better than originally estimated. For 2024, we've brought the cloud bill down from the original $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million. That's a saving of almost two million dollars per year for our setup! The reason it's more than our original estimate of $7 million over five years is that we got away with putting all the new hardware into our existing data center racks and power limits.
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Apache going to 100%? That's really odd, I've never seen that across the dozen I've maintained over the years. Is there something trying to hit the site hard like one of the many site checkers that run out there, or are you maybe trying to pull a lot of data across a USB connection? There's also that stupid psuedo-swap process that the Pi uses (maybe gone now, don't know) that would tie a core or two up, maybe you're running out of memory and it's trying swap but can't?

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I have had it happen in some cases.. Though, I am talking about a crazy mount of connections and nginx would probably not have those issues. I can't give more details because of reasons.

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The Apache server that has the 100% CPU problem isn't on any of my PIs but on the Debian VM I rent from Lineode. I suspect the configuration may be too limited in memory. I don't really care because even when it runs at 100% CPU, the site still seem responsive enough. My cron job seems to take care of that problem though.

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Yes, could definitely be memory related…or their VM are just poorly optimized and leaky.