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Agreed. Similar results here over the years. I shouldn't bash EC2 so hard, but they also shouldn't keep the same uptime estimates when they have degraded over
by imperialdrive 11y ago
Agreed. Similar results here over the years. I shouldn't bash EC2 so hard, but they also shouldn't keep the same uptime estimates when they have degraded over time. My developer made it all pretty clear to me with a statement "if you tell me the strengths and weaknesses of the system, I'll code accordingly" Great developer, can overcome EBS failing with 3-9's, but only if they state that and not 5-9's!
- pbarnes_1 11y agoI just find it weird that every time "the cloud" comes up on HN, people defend it as hard as they can, like running servers yourself is some voodoo magic to be shunned. Usually with examples of "well, X is only saving $56,000/month with this switch away from the cloud! surely they're making a terrible tradeoff in an increase in employees!". The answer is no. People do these calculations before moving stacks. The cloud is where VC money goes to pad Amazon's bottom line. AWS is insanely overpriced if you actually sit down and do the numbers. I'm our company's part time sysadmin on a bunch of bare metal servers, I spend maybe 1-2 hours total per month kicking things/filing hardware replacement tickets/etc. I don't understand this mindset against learning the entire stack. You should understand hardware, network and OS. Maybe I'm too old.