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Maybe I'm weird, but I like servers that I can touch. Maybe if you're only a couple person company, it makes sense to use the cloud. But just paying for some sp
by mruts 8y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I like servers that I can touch. Maybe if you're only a couple person company, it makes sense to use the cloud. But just paying for some space at a data-center and having your own servers seems ideal for any company medium and above sized start-up.
My last job was at a financial start-up worth about 200M at the time. And our server setup was dead simple: 8 servers and a load balancer. No containers, no bullshit, just servers running JVMs.
- tim333 8y agoCoding Horror just have a discussion on using colocation for Discourse. Seems kind of ok really https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-elses-computer/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-else...
- pcoutin 8y agoI don't see any real disadvantage as long as you have IaC.