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by jamesgolick
5696 days ago
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First of all, there are managed hardware providers who can get you hardware online in less than 4 hours. Second of all, capacity planning can save you from "needing elasticity". Third of all, if you were on machines that gave you reasonable performance (i.e. not shared hosting), you probably wouldn't "need" nearly as much elasticity. |
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You discard that as if nobody needed elasticity.
Have you ever dealt with a large B2C site? Traffic tends to be heavily seasonal there, and in many other genres, too.
"Capacity planning" is a nice word for what in reality commonly boils down a bit of educated guessing, followed by the decision to keep a $reasonable amount of over-capacity around. The exact value of $reasonable is hardly ever specified by much more than the equivalent of a dice-roll.
Moreover, the interesting question is not which provider can provision a pile of metal within 4 hours. The interesting question is which of them will take those machines back a day later, without charging for a full month. A cloud will do that. Will your managed ISP?