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As a reality check, we're talking simple (and even not-so-simple) web site/app hosting options here (and not some NASA/space/military/healthcare grade requireme
by webtechgal 10y ago
As a reality check, we're talking simple (and even not-so-simple) web site/app hosting options here (and not some NASA/space/military/healthcare grade requirements).
From my perspective (as a freelance web tech/dev professional who routinely manages close to two dozen hosting accounts for clients), what you're saying above comes very very close to driving a nail with a sledgehammer.
- Annatar 10y agoThat would only hold true if your or my time were worthless, or had a very low valuation. Hosting clientele is notoriously high maintenance; the more technology ignorant, the higher the maintenance in terms of support, and the more fallout one has to deal with when there is downtime. My time is expensive. My free time is exorbitantly expensive. Therefore, when I pick a solution and decide to deploy on it, it has to be as much "fire-and-forget" as is possible. Picking a bulletproof substrate to offer my services on also increases the time available to provide higher quality service to my clients: since my time dealing with basic infrastructure is reduced as much as possible, I have more of it to spend on providing better service and adding value, thereby increasing the client retention rate. Because of the economy involved in this, and especially considering how razor thin hosting margins are, I feel that the nail with a sledgehammer metaphor is inapplicable to this scenario.