ModernOps
Engineering Journal
Field Notes.
Plain-math writeups from the engineers who take your calls: the licensing, hardware and platform decisions mid-market IT teams are actually facing. No sales pitch, sources shown.
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01
The 3-host VMware trap, and the escape hatch that costs about half.
Broadcom went subscription-only, hardware prices are spiking, and small clusters now pay enterprise rates. The math on the standard three-host shop (96 cores, $14K–$18K a year), and what a hosted alternative actually looks like.
02
In the works.
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