Timeline for Questions that are flagged for issues relating to "Pricing"
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://serverfault.com/ with https://serverfault.com/
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| Feb 10, 2017 at 7:50 | comment | added | MadHatter | @Reaces you've clearly put some thought into that, for which I thank you, and I'm sure you're right. | |
| Feb 10, 2017 at 7:48 | comment | added | Reaces | @MadHatter After looking into it further, I think a canonical answer wouldn't be of much use. It would inevitably devolve into a bunch of links to pretty comprehensive articles written by the cloud providers. I'll just stick to closing the questions and adding a link to the relevant cloud providers primary documentation on the subject. | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 11:58 | comment | added | MadHatter | @Reaces I'm not saying you're wrong about the utility of a general question, probably with a view to canonicalisation, but I'd much rather you wrote it. A really good specimen question seems much more likely to me to generate good canonical answers. | |
| Feb 1, 2017 at 8:05 | comment | added | Reaces | @Sven I think this might be one of those questions that, despite being broad, could attract very comprehensive answers. It is a topic a lot of us have been confronted with in the last few years, and have had to research. It is also something that can be answered broadly without needing to get into specifics that would cause the answer to bloat. If the question were asked I would pose to keep it open for a few days, see if it attracts enough attention. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 16:50 | comment | added | Sven Mod | @zipzit: Before you are asking another question, please note the following: Questions on Server Fault should be concerned with actual technical problems you face and they should be limited in scope so they can be answered in a short(ish) text. "How does automatic scaling works in general" wouldn't be welcome and "How do I do automatic scaling with EC2 and ELB" would be far too broad and would only be answerable with "RTFM". | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 10:03 | comment | added | zipzit | @Reaces, MadHatter, Thank you. Your first sentence "configured servers to only run at peak time / provision and de-provision depending on load balancers and scheduled servers. " is very helpful in giving me appropriate lookup terms. So my original question is definitely not a fit. Its deleted. It will take me a day or two to resubmit. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:27 | comment | added | Reaces | @zipzit I'm sure plenty of people here have configured servers to only run at peak time / provision and de-provision depending on load balancers and scheduled servers. Asking how that can be done would probably get an answer. But you need to be concise and stop trying to argue with people. Just try again with a narrower question and less confrontation. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:22 | comment | added | MadHatter | No, I am not. I'm trying to be clear that if your original question had simply said How is it possible to set up a cloud server that runs less than 24 hours a day? we wouldn't be having this discussion. Your actual original question barely asks that, and asks a lot more off-topic stuff besides. Focussing on exactly why it's accumulating votes to close is really rather missing the point. I've been pretty clear about what I think you should do in order to get an answer to the question you claim to want to ask. What you do now is of course up to you, but I'm done debating minutiae. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:21 | comment | added | zipzit | Please don't miss my point. Before I wrote my posting I checked both the ask/don't ask guidelines sites to verify my question was acceptable. I saw not a single thing about "pricing" "billing" or "sales" related issues. Had I seen that I would NOT have written the other question in the first place. I do appreciate your thoughtful input here. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:18 | comment | added | zipzit | Are you saying that to make a server run less than 24x7 involves heavy utilization of a specific system's management interface? I did not know that. I was responding here based on comments on the other site, all of which spoke about the issue as "pricing", "billing" or "sales" issues. But the confusion proves my point. Perhaps an update to the ask/don't ask guidelines is appropriate? | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:13 | comment | added | MadHatter | My answer is intended for here, as it addresses why your original question may be considered off-topic and whether or not this is documented. Follow the link above to see where "working with a service provider's management interface" is explicitly off-topic. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:12 | comment | added | zipzit | Good advice, and this answer definitely fits my question on ServerFault. Perhaps you intended it for there? But this answer doesn't address my question here on meta.. The question here on meta.serverfault is "Where on the ask or don't ask sites for serverfault.com does it say that questions about "billing practices" are not allowed? Please share the rules with the rest of us in WRITTEN FORMAT, ONLINE SOMEWHERE." Frankly I wrote this question on meta to get the guidelines updated so it was clear that billing related questions are off topic. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:01 | history | answered | MadHatter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |