I see where your head is at here, but it sounds like you’re focusing on containerized items. A lot of people are going to look at you real weird if you think of scaling down a container as equivalent to shutting down a server. We can all see where your mind is going and there is logic there, but it’s more akin to closing chrome when you’re not using it than it is to shutting down the computer running chrome.
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BritishJ@lemmy.world 2 months agoIn pretty much any enterprise using the public cloud. Everything is auto scaling, so shutdowns when not needed. Dev environments shutdown over night… If you’re not shutting down and scaling in the public cloud, you’re doing it wrong.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even physical hardware, if your paying power you can have clusters of physical hardware power up and down based on usage. There is no point in having 10 physical hosts running when the workload for n+1 means 3 servers overnight. With bnc, ipmi, ilo, idrac it will power them up as needed.
BritishJ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Finally someone who gets it.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yup. I run those kind of clusters. But unless your in home datacenter territory, that sort of config isn’t likely to happen in self hosted.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok scaling is not what we’re talking about here lol.
BritishJ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is it shutting down servers… Yes. it just does it based on parameters and thresholds.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No Donny it’s not. You’re out of your element here.
FippleStone@aussie.zone 2 months ago
They’re fuckin’ nihilists dude, they don’t believe in anything
BritishJ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But it is. They’re stopped and deallocated. They start up when demanded. And shutdown when below a threshold or a certain schedule.
Yearly1845@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Most of us don’t have clusters so shutting down the server means taking the server and all associated services completely offline.
Do you take your product completely offline for 8 hours every single day?
WordBox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right you don’t shut them down, you scale them down. My server also uses less power off peak demand.
BritishJ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No we shut them down. They get deallocated the same way as shutting down a virtual server does. They’re not containers, the scaling part just turns them on and off based on workload or schedule