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All of this is accurate. Also on the infrastructure deployment and maintenance side, virtualization already vacated the need for any ordinary organization to sp

All of this is accurate. Also on the infrastructure deployment and maintenance side, virtualization already vacated the need for any ordinary organization to spend time worrying about infrastructure. You just rent colo and slap hypervisors in. There are still organizations messing around with overly complex internal server systems because they have bad admins or are heavy in technical debt, but these are no longer the rule.

stephenr 10y ago
> You just rent colo and slap hypervisors in. For most clients I work with (who often have this "oh but shouldn't we use AWS, they're the best right?" attitude) even a few rented VPS (i.e. on shared hardware) is sufficient. I'm a big fan of the way some providers like Rimu allow more control, which helps with scaling up - by default most customers just use one or more Xen VM's on shared physical hosts, but you have the option to rent dedicated hardware (either existing stock, or custom orders), and then you can run one or more VMs - without noisy neighbour concerns. The "single vm on a host" seems weird to most people at first, until you realise that it allows you to migrate the VM between physical hosts. Sure, the new hotness is servers-as-cattle and we should just provision a new instance, but that doesn't always work for smaller outfits.