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Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays

by jnty 8y ago

Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays patched and current over years and years... While you're busy figuring out what monitoring solution to use on your VPS to monitor the running all for the sake of a little Python script, I've already set up a lambda function and maybe set a cloudwatch alarm to look after it and can move on to the next thing and leave it running indefinitely. Depending on the usecase I might not even pay a penny during that time, either. I swear 90% of the hate for serverless purely stems from irritation at the name.

isomorph 8y ago
Hi - I couldn't find a way to contact you and was unable to reply in situ for some reason. Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title to my latest submission? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=isomorph https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=isomorph ) I have checked the definition of the word "editorialise: To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report." - I did not express any opinion in the title - I simply added context for those who don't know about the so-called "contaminated blood scandal" in the UK. Namely the three-letter detail I added was "HIV" i.e. that the UK's government-run National Health Service infected patients as young as 8 years old with HIV. This change was not gratuitous as it added essential context to the story. I have checked the Hacker News guidelines and since the article dispels myths people have about health systems, I felt it was pertinent.
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scarface74 8y ago
Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays patched and current over years and years... If you are spending that much time managing infrastructure on AWS, you’re doing it wrong. ElasticBeanstalk makes it dead simple. While you're busy figuring out what monitoring solution to use on your VPS to monitor the running all for the sake of a little Python script, I've already set up a lambda function and maybe set a cloudwatch alarm to look after it and can move on to the next thing and leave it running indefinitely. Depending on the usecase I might not even pay a penny during that time, either. And you can do the same with AWS and a bunch of micro instances. But if it’s that low volume, I would just host it myself. I swear 90% of the hate for serverless purely stems from irritation at the name. I love serverless for everything but APIs. But 90% of my hate for serverless is with APIs and the cold starts.

by jnty 8y ago

Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays patched and current over years and years... While you're busy figuring out what monitoring solution to use on your VPS to monitor the running all for the sake of a little Python script, I've already set up a lambda function and maybe set a cloudwatch alarm to look after it and can move on to the next thing and leave it running indefinitely. Depending on the usecase I might not even pay a penny during that time, either. I swear 90% of the hate for serverless purely stems from irritation at the name.

isomorph 8y ago

Hi - I couldn't find a way to contact you and was unable to reply in situ for some reason. Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title to my latest submission? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=isomorph https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=isomorph ) I have checked the definition of the word "editorialise: To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report." - I did not express any opinion in the title - I simply added context for those who don't know about the so-called "contaminated blood scandal" in the UK. Namely the three-letter detail I added was "HIV" i.e. that the UK's government-run National Health Service infected patients as young as 8 years old with HIV. This change was not gratuitous as it added essential context to the story. I have checked the Hacker News guidelines and since the article dispels myths people have about health systems, I felt it was pertinent.

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scarface74 8y ago

Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays patched and current over years and years... If you are spending that much time managing infrastructure on AWS, you’re doing it wrong. ElasticBeanstalk makes it dead simple. While you're busy figuring out what monitoring solution to use on your VPS to monitor the running all for the sake of a little Python script, I've already set up a lambda function and maybe set a cloudwatch alarm to look after it and can move on to the next thing and leave it running indefinitely. Depending on the usecase I might not even pay a penny during that time, either. And you can do the same with AWS and a bunch of micro instances. But if it’s that low volume, I would just host it myself. I swear 90% of the hate for serverless purely stems from irritation at the name. I love serverless for everything but APIs. But 90% of my hate for serverless is with APIs and the cold starts.