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0 pointsfooblat7y ago0 comments

I don't disagree with your statement but I would have expected an article with "bare metal" in the title to cover some of the unique issues associated with bare metal. Like measuring, planning, and managing capacity.

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bryanlarsen7y ago

In my (perhaps unique) experience measuring planning & managing capacity is more of a problem when using VPS's. Bare metal has so much more capacity per node than small VPS's that the minimum 3 node cluster will handle a few hundred small sites before hitting any sort of limit. So why bother measuring. :)

fooblatOP7y ago

In my experience, adding more VMs when capacity is needed is trivial to automate on a platform like AWS. With real physical machines it takes advanced planning and actual physical work to deploy more machines. Even with a managed hosting provider there is work to do to automate the provisioning.

bryanlarsen7y ago

Adding a new bare metal machine or a new VM to the setup in the original article is exactly the same amount of work, automated or not.

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fooblatOP7y ago

bryanlarsen7y ago

Adding a new bare metal machine or a new VM to the setup in the original article is exactly the same amount of work, automated or not.

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