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I've been debating switching from Rackspace to bare metal a lot lately. Their managed DB product proved rock solid for several years, though the last bit has be
by leesalminen 11y ago
I've been debating switching from Rackspace to bare metal a lot lately. Their managed DB product proved rock solid for several years, though the last bit has been less reliable.
I always ask myself if I would truly be better at managing a MariaDB cluster than RS.
Would you say it makes sense for a one man ops team to run bare metal?
- old-gregg 11y agoHm... they have both: http://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal http://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal
- DiabloD3 11y agoFor many years I was a one man ops team, before I founded Exelion, and yet again a one man ops team for the first two years. I prefer bare metal so I'm assured very specific things, such as data security, overall latency (CPU, disk, etc), and also IO flow between VMs, and ALSO the choice of whatever hypervisor I want on servers I use VMs on. Outsourcing hypervisor management to a third party sometimes makes sense, and sometimes doesn't. That said, Rackspace DOES have bare metal offerings, but I find them to be far more expensive than they are worth. Exelion does it less expensively with better service quality, but of course, what I say is just a smidgen biased. ;)