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supremekaiHey guys, not sure if this is the best channel to ask this, but I would like to get a cloud provider VARIABLE RAM/CPU instance to mount a ubuntu-server. Where can I get it? I am using a VPS from VULTR which has a FIXED RAM/CPU, but I am not being able to find a VPS with variable RAM/CPU usage, could you provide me some reference? Like Google Cloud?02:20
sarnoldmy irssi aws instance is a lightsail instance; memory is fixed :( -- all the docs suggest that it's easy enough to change the memory of normal aws ec2 instances, but lightsale instances are set in stone02:24
sarnoldI don't know about the CPU -- instance types feel very fixed, but perhaps the vcpu count is more flexible? I'm not sure :( I bet you could test a few things on the free tiers of aws, azure, gce, oracle, and figure out what you like and dislike without costing anything02:25
supremekaisarnold, yup :\ I was looking for something that would allow some RAM/CPU peaks that my backend is experiencing02:48
supremekaibut I can't seem to find any cloud instance which provides this flexibility02:49
supremekaiI've always used fixed-size CPU/RAM machines02:49
supremekaibut with the advent of google cloud, aws, etc.. we could have some kind of service like that available02:49
supremekaithe issue is that they have so much products that I cannot find it specifically02:49
sarnoldsupremekai: isn't that the truth :( I hate the aws docs so much02:50
keithzgYeahhh there's some longstanding possible improvements I could make to the backup setup at my work but so much of it would have to do with reading deeper on AWS and I always find a way to shuffle that task lower in the queue03:05
tomreynFWIW, on AWS you have the AMD CPU instace types (ending in 'a' as in AMD, such as "T3a") which are burstable, i.e. allowing for CPU overcommit at an increased price (can be disabled): https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#Burstable_Performance_Instances11:44
tomreynbut their general answer to increasing + lowering demand is autoscaling - adding or removing instances based on demand - which requires a high availability software / system architecture11:46
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patdk-laphate aws docs? they are so good, compared to most everyone else16:08
patdk-lapif you need more flexable instance sizing, google is much more flexable, but I don't know any that will do dynamic sizing16:09
patdk-lappersonally I'm using k8s on aws using spot instances and let it autoscale the cluster up and down16:10
sarnoldheh yeah it's entirely possible that the aws docs are vastly better than others; I just know that I can't pay attention to them for any length of time.19:15
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