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> but even crappy options like RDS Curious as to why you see RDS as a 'crappy' option?? Given the choice of building and maintaining a MySQL box in the corner
by cyberferret 10y ago
> but even crappy options like RDS
Curious as to why you see RDS as a 'crappy' option??
Given the choice of building and maintaining a MySQL box in the corner of your bedroom and hosting it on RDS - I know which way I would go (and I have done both over the years).
If you are talking 'scaling' in terms of the OP's article, then RDS is almost a no brainer, and you can scale your instances (and add replicated instances etc.), hide it behind a VPN, set up firewalls to prevent DDoS attacks all in a matter of minutes, with a few mouse clicks.
- qaq 10y agoThe highest IOPS you can get on RDS is about a single consumer grade SSD.
- cyberferret 10y agoFair enough. But if the alternative is setting up a consumer grade PC on a consumer grade internet connection in a (non environmentally or power controlled) corner of a room at home, then surely we are looking at a similar situation? Given that spooling up a RDS instance is quicker and cheaper than buying all the hardware and spending time installing and configuring an SQL server, then if time to market is a critical factor, you would choose RDS over a home grown solution, wouldn't you? [Edit: I just realised that this is actually the point you were making, and I got sidetracked by my above question]
- pbreit 10y agoHave you heard of hosting? No one is running servers in their house. Nobody.
- pbreit 10y agoNo one hosts MySQL out of their bedroom. C'mon. The alternative is hosting the DB yourself at a hosting provider which is what most do and it works fine.