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The problem here is that Amazon/Rackspace/other VM infrastructure providers actually do market them as application platforms, not platforms to run VMs. Nobody
by borism 16y ago
The problem here is that Amazon/Rackspace/other VM infrastructure providers actually do market them as application platforms, not platforms to run VMs.
Nobody really cares that you have OS underneath all this, all people want to do is run some application on top of it. So all educational materials etc. instruct you to use VM as a foundation to run single app, not use it as a traditional server with multitude of services.
The end result is the same, except with EC2 et al you have to deal with traditional sysadmin tasks yourself.
- firemanx 16y agoI don't know if I'd say the end result is the same - I haven't found an application-centric provider (ie, Azure, Heroku, GAE) that I can perform traditional data-warehousing with yet. I do a lot of database heavy work in Postgres, most of which relies on database user functions to keep things performant, and Rackspace Server / EC2 are the only methods I've found that I can actually do this. Sure, I have to do some basic sysadmin maintenance, but I'm also not running Facebook here. Some basic monitoring and a few shell scripts and I have a reliable system that serves my clients needs.