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I’d rent a small VPS for $10 a month and split the bill. As far as I know that’s how most people do it. It’s going to have >99.9% uptime, a fast datacenter internet connection at some central location… The Kubernetes approach adds a lot of complexity, you’ll have your games disconnect anyway if it fails over, and there will be some additional traffic between the locations to keep everything in sync. Unless I’m mistaken about how Kubernetes works.

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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

And 4x chance of some of the hardware failing and someone needs to fix it. Unless I’m mistaken about how Kubernetes works.

I’m pretty sure half the point of kubernetes is to have the server automatically reroute traffic when one node goes down

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- NowThatsWhatICallDadRock@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That would be a load balancer but is not integral to the working of kubernetes. I wouldn’t consider kubernetes unless you have a need for autoscaling. It’s a lot of overhead for such a limited use case.
  
  You can front any three un-clustered nodes with a load balancer to the same effect
  
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  - mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    You can front any three un-clustered nodes with a load balancer to the same effect
    
    Good to hear. Are there specific example you could point me to? I’d like to learn more
    
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    NowThatsWhatICallDadRock@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    www.cloudflare.com/…/what-is-load-balancing/
    
    docs.nginx.com/nginx/…/http-load-balancer/
    
    I would start here. Most off the shelf proxies can do it
    
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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  But doen’t that require some software-defined networking or a special network setup? I’m pretty sure with the avergage home internet connection, you’ll fail over to the replica at your friend’s home. But that has an entirely diffetent IP address and the game client will not handle that gracefully.
  
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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’d rent one (small) VPS for $10 a month and split the bill.

We don’t want to pay for a VPS. We’ve been burned by that too often in the past were you go months paying for a minecraft server that noone is using after the first month

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Fair enough. I mean for me the equation might be a bit different, I’d pay about 200€ a year in electricity to run 3 efficient computers. And my VPS is only 73€ and I never have to pay for replacement parts (SSDs, harddisks) which I had to replace at home and they have gigabit network, a proper IP address and that’s all way better than what I have at home. So it’s a no-brainer to go for that. But your cost calculation might be different.
  
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