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10 of the large instances costs $5000 a month. Not insignificant. Smaller ones in my experience don’t run larger Rails apps very well.
by joevandyk 8y ago
10 of the large instances costs $5000 a month. Not insignificant. Smaller ones in my experience don’t run larger Rails apps very well.
- ryanbrunner 8y agoIf the alternative is one engineer spending 50% of their time dealing with infrastructure, $5000 is still a good deal.
- preordained 8y ago$5000 a month could be a single employee's wage. Just pretend you have a new hire named "Heroku" who is generating immense value for you. If you are a one or two man shop, sure...but if you find yourself spending inordinate amounts of man hours toying with infrastructure, I think you'd need to ask what you are really saving.
- noneeeed 8y agoYeah, I've been frustrated so many times over my career when people get fixated over the sticker price of some SaaS/PaaS and instead insist on wasting rediculous hours building something or gaffa-taping some open-source solution together that then has to be maintained. I've been in meetings where the combinded cost of the time taken to discuss if we should use a thing was more than the cost of the thing. Utterly infuriating. Even when I worked for an agency there seemed to be an automatic discounting of the cost of people's time vs spending actual cash (and cashflow wasn't an issue). I appreciate that there is often good reasons to DIY, but when there are not I will always favour something off-the shelf unless it is significantly more expensive.
- superhuzza 8y agoI once worked at a company where the CEO would change the CRM every eight months or so, based on what kind of deals he could negotiate. Can you imagine how much time was wasted migrating, remapping and relearning the new systems??!
- aczerepinski 8y agoThat's definitely less than half of what you'd pay to a devops/SRE type who has experience with K8s and all the other cloud hotness.