Yup, we just moved large chunks of our SaaS platform from the cloud to dedicated servers with Kubernetes serving as an internal cloud. Ended up reducing our cost to 30% (70% saved!).
We realized that instead of using scaling for peaks, by having additional dedicated servers available full time - it still worked out significantly cheaper. We also moved a lot of our internal processing to run in specific windows of time where the expected load was low to maximize server utilization in those periods.
I want to step in here - Facebook is in no-way trying to save a few bucks. I've reported a few bugs to Facebook and they go out of their way to pay you greater sums depending on the severity.
You just have to be professional and disclose in-detail with steps to reproduce.
I am really not too worried about this because - I know that corruption and incompetence will ensure this system never comes into place effectively.
On the few occasions that the government has tried to ban certain URLs - its almost always been simple DNS filters that can be bypassed by using Google DNS.
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