"spot" instances are often about an order of magnitude cheaper, at the cost that they may be terminated at any time (with 2 minutes warning) if someone bids a higher price. i wonder if it is acceptable to run a website with spot instances.
as long as no request takes more than 2 minutes to complete, it is completely possible to spin up a new spot machine (at a slightly higher price) while the current one is about to be shut down, and just move everything over to that machine
mario
It is cheaper to rent servers from Oregon since it is located close to the river and less energy/electricity is needed to allow the servers to run..
srb
Energy is cheaper in Oregon because of the Hoover dam - it produced 3.6 TWh of energy in 2015. 1 TWh is about 114 million watts, sustained, for a year.
kayvonf
@srb. It is true the hydro-power is a big reason for the availability of cheap power in the Pacific Northwest.
However, for the record, the Hoover Dam is in southern Nevada (it dams the Colorado River) and therefore I imagine generates no power for Oregon. ;-)
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"spot" instances are often about an order of magnitude cheaper, at the cost that they may be terminated at any time (with 2 minutes warning) if someone bids a higher price. i wonder if it is acceptable to run a website with spot instances.
as long as no request takes more than 2 minutes to complete, it is completely possible to spin up a new spot machine (at a slightly higher price) while the current one is about to be shut down, and just move everything over to that machine
It is cheaper to rent servers from Oregon since it is located close to the river and less energy/electricity is needed to allow the servers to run..
Energy is cheaper in Oregon because of the Hoover dam - it produced 3.6 TWh of energy in 2015. 1 TWh is about 114 million watts, sustained, for a year.
@srb. It is true the hydro-power is a big reason for the availability of cheap power in the Pacific Northwest.
However, for the record, the Hoover Dam is in southern Nevada (it dams the Colorado River) and therefore I imagine generates no power for Oregon. ;-)