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> "Unfortunately, our infrastructure on AWS is working " > "I learned recently that we are a profitable company, more so than I thought. Looking at the top 10
by nolite 10y ago
> "Unfortunately, our infrastructure on AWS is working "
> "I learned recently that we are a profitable company, more so than I thought. Looking at the top 10 companies by revenue per employee, we’d be in the top 10."
Congratulations. You just convinced me to go with AWS
- emorse 10y agoI feel like it would be easier to find staff that knows or is interested in using AWS over GCE, and that can be more important than $X extra dollars a month. Sometimes, the right solution is the most practical solution, not the most optimized solution. Once AWS becomes a problem, you're probably well off enough to look into other solutions. But I'd think you could just tweak your set-up.
- hrez 10y agoI feel that I it would be bad hire if staff is uninterested or unable to learn GCE.
- 0xmohit 10y agoAs somebody who is stuck with AWS for now, I wish you luck. You would have real fun when one of your running instances shuts down on it's own (and possibly comes back after some time), and would be pointed to the AWS SLA upon asking them what had happened. You would have more fun when rebooting an instance would take 2 hours to be told that there was some underlying issue with the hardware. For samples of the responses that you get from AWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822544
- cwilkes 10y agoBecause these types of problems never occur when you are running on bare metal? In fact it is worse: typically you are resource constrained as the budget cycle to buy new hardware doesn't start up till next quarter so you literally don't have another machine to run on so you are screwed. That isn't to say that AWS is without fault, but I find most comments about unresponsiveness of systems or the inabaility to find a route cause (i.e. A bad disk) would happen anyway with another system designed in the same fashion.
- bradhe 10y ago> You would have real fun when one of your running instances shuts down on it's own Or you could author software and systems that aren't so brittle that the loss of a single machine is problematic for you. Seriously, your engineering practices need some love if this is a problem.
- 0xmohit 10y agoI fail to understand such arguments. Does that imply that every single webpage in the world needs to be behind a load balancer with unwarranted amounts of redundancy in place? And if one doesn't do that, it's ok if the site is down.
- josephmx 10y agoIf redundancy is unwarranted, then the site can't possibly be mission critical?
- PeterisP 10y agoWell, yes, that's exactly the point - a single site without redundancy does mean that you will get some hours of downtime every now and then; either it's ok if the site is down for such time, or extra redundancy is actually warranted.