Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued

At one instance, there was a fire in our data center and the backup power had some issues because of which the whole DC went down. I believe with AKS and the replication it's easier to handle such a situation. Also, the scenario would have been pretty transparent to the end-users.

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Unlike other providers, Springs doesn’t use a pre-built container solution, instead opting for their own software built from the ground up.

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• Highly repeatable process
• Minimizes the amount of software to install
• Easily scale resources to meet demand

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• Container hosting, cloud virtualization
• Elastic capacity scaling and pay-per-use billing
• Linux kernel containerization technologies for container isolation and control

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• Need to update cluster manually
• Policies cannot be updated for existing components
• if any change in policy every has to create cluster

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• Provide more options at lower costs
• It would be nice to see that expanded out to more distributions. What would be potentially even better though is templates. Some hosts can deploy ready-to-run WordPress/Drupal sites, LAMP instances, ownCloud instances, etc. at the drop of a hat. If Springs could replicate this with their container hosting they’d immediately appeal to a much, much wider audience;

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Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.

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The ability to create new instances (i.e. elastic provisioning) is probably the fastest with Azure Kubernetes Service compared to the alternatives that I have looked at. From a pricing perspective, Microsoft always seems to find a way to be more competitive in this area, and literally every other field they play in.

Incentivized

Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.

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• Positive impact in moving applications to cloud from the in-hose data center to save cost
• Sometimes got affected with some bugs on the AKS infrastructure but hasn't caused a big kios as our production footprint in AKS is not yet high

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• In the beginning I wasn’t sure what I should set it to for my web server, so I left it. After a while the Average usage area begins showing how much resource the container is demanding and from that more adequate limits can be set.
• Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.

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