Cloud Control Spectrum: How Should I Deploy My Web Application?

April 10, 2022

There are seemingly infinite ways to deploy web applications to the cloud:

• 🏢 On-Premise
• 🤝 Colocation
• 🤘 Bare Metal Cloud
• 📜 Dedicated Hosts/instances
• 🤖 Virtual Machines
• ⚙️ Managed Services
• ✨ Platform as a Service

Which option is right for you? Read on to find out!

Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison (2020)

March 5, 2020

TL;DR: Azure and Digital Ocean don’t charge for the compute resources used for the control plane, making AKS and DO the cheapest for running many, smaller clusters. For running fewer, larger clusters GKE is the most affordable option. Also, running on spot/preemptible/low-priority nodes or long-term committed nodes makes a massive impact across all of the platforms.