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It's because a little VPS won't give you a fail-safe system. For a SaaS startup you'll need to have several machines in a redundant cluster and ideally you'll a
by wkornewald 16y ago
It's because a little VPS won't give you a fail-safe system. For a SaaS startup you'll need to have several machines in a redundant cluster and ideally you'll also have machines in at least two data centers. The people who use App Engine for their business all have the same dream: Build the app, click deploy, and have Google handle all the annoying server stuff. Obviously, App Engine isn't quite there, yet. It's not fast enough, it's not stable enough, and it has a limited feature set. Clearly, we're early adopters. However, App Engine is going in the right direction and once the problems are gone people will ask "Why not just use App Engine?" (or whatever other PaaS) instead of "Why not just use a VPS?".
- pjscott 16y agoBecause I'm feeling pedantic today: you meant to say "a fault-tolerant system". A fail-safe system is one which fails in a safe way. An example would be a CPU that shuts itself down if it's overheating, rather than risk permanent damage. If anything, a fail-safe system may be more prone to failure because of its cautious approach to dealing with faults. There are some pretty cool examples on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-safe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-safe
- wkornewald 16y agoOK, thanks. Will try to remember that. :)