[vmarchaud]

I'm working at a company that does realtime content generation for emails/website, generally those are images but we are trying to do video now. The big problem we have are the cost of bandwith, specially for video (we are speaking about ~20MB video send to 1M users over 2-3h, you can eyeball it at ~2k$ just for the bandwith). So we decided to migrate to dedicated servers (still ongoing), better performance for a fraction of the cost (you can find 80e/month servers with 12cpu/64G ram at OVH for example) and no bandwith cost.

We already had experience with running bare metal infra (hashicorp stack), currently evaluating how to deploy it (currently using GKE). Althrough it should be straight forward since its mostly stateless workload, we it need to be able scale x10 in less than 1h sometimes so we might throw an node autoscaler that provision from cloud.