WiFiDog VS Spot.io

Look at the many captive portal software packages (e.g. http://dev.wifidog.org/) for simple set-up. Source: about 2 years ago

As for the captive portal - there are lots and lots of options but possibly start at Wifidog as that has authentication. Source: about 2 years ago

+1 In my previous stint, I had worked with Spot (https://spot.io/) as one of our vendors. Absolutely great product, amazing customer support and ability to take feature requests, or otherwise address our pain points quickly and effectively. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

FWIW, I am also a big spot.io fan for our workload. During the holidays I run 30-50% spot instances and run 100% spot most of the year. Source: over 1 year ago

Also, you definitely should look into Reservations, and (sale pitch coming) Spot can help you manage those. Source: over 1 year ago

All of this is on spot-instances. We used spot.io (I believe the product is called "Ocean") and they basically took care of all the backend logic to make spot-instances available for the ECS cluster. Source: about 2 years ago

Does cloud provider matter? I would say/think so. Not just cloud provider, but further more, how you set it up, which begets cloud provider. Are you setting it up with only the aws cli? Or did you terraform it? Maybe you chose a particular terraform module or maybe you used eksctl. Maybe you used kops or kubeadm. All these things matter when you get to cluster autoscaling, tainting particular node types to... Source: almost 3 years ago