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You're paying for a super ninja ultra special internet connection as well? Yikes. Interesting concept though. So your strategy for scaling up is building a dat

by oneloop 10y ago

You're paying for a super ninja ultra special internet connection as well? Yikes. Interesting concept though. So your strategy for scaling up is building a data center then?

CaptSpify 10y ago
> You're paying for a super ninja ultra special internet connection as well? Not really. Just a normal home connection. If you design your services sanely, and don't have much traffic, it's not really an issue. > So your strategy for scaling up is building a data center then? Well, it depends. You really should do a cost-benefit analysis, because each product is different. But if it makes sense, then yes.
- oneloop 10y ago
  But your whole argument was that for some serious application you shouldn't trust on cloud services, wasn't it? The kind of things I was doing half a year ago you couldn't run on your home connection. So this whole "run important stuff on your home connection" is just a signal that you're not doing anything great.
  - CaptSpify 10y ago
    > But your whole argument was that for some serious application you shouldn't trust on cloud services, wasn't it? Well, with everything, there are pros and cons. My argument is that I think it's silly to trust someone else with your infrastructure. There can be benefits to doing so, however, your giving up a lot as well. And in terms of cost (which is usually the main argument that I hear), I've personally never seen it work. Your trusting someone with something pretty critical with your business, so you should think long and hard about which direction you want to go. If your cloud-service gets arbitrarily shut down or has an outage, what responses can you take to fix it? Usually not many. Thats essentially adding a SPoF, which is generally considered a big no-no, although it does happen. > The kind of things I was doing half a year ago you couldn't run on your home connection. I'd be curious as to what your doing then. > just a signal that you're not doing anything great. I guess that depends on what you mean as great. I do a lot of useful stuff: email, web-apps, file-store, home-automation, etc.

by oneloop 10y ago

You're paying for a super ninja ultra special internet connection as well? Yikes. Interesting concept though. So your strategy for scaling up is building a data center then?

CaptSpify 10y ago

> You're paying for a super ninja ultra special internet connection as well? Not really. Just a normal home connection. If you design your services sanely, and don't have much traffic, it's not really an issue. > So your strategy for scaling up is building a data center then? Well, it depends. You really should do a cost-benefit analysis, because each product is different. But if it makes sense, then yes.

oneloop 10y ago
But your whole argument was that for some serious application you shouldn't trust on cloud services, wasn't it? The kind of things I was doing half a year ago you couldn't run on your home connection. So this whole "run important stuff on your home connection" is just a signal that you're not doing anything great.
- CaptSpify 10y ago
  > But your whole argument was that for some serious application you shouldn't trust on cloud services, wasn't it? Well, with everything, there are pros and cons. My argument is that I think it's silly to trust someone else with your infrastructure. There can be benefits to doing so, however, your giving up a lot as well. And in terms of cost (which is usually the main argument that I hear), I've personally never seen it work. Your trusting someone with something pretty critical with your business, so you should think long and hard about which direction you want to go. If your cloud-service gets arbitrarily shut down or has an outage, what responses can you take to fix it? Usually not many. Thats essentially adding a SPoF, which is generally considered a big no-no, although it does happen. > The kind of things I was doing half a year ago you couldn't run on your home connection. I'd be curious as to what your doing then. > just a signal that you're not doing anything great. I guess that depends on what you mean as great. I do a lot of useful stuff: email, web-apps, file-store, home-automation, etc.