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Sorry to see you're getting downvoted, but it's probably because that's just too long of a story to put in a comment. The parent you're replying to was being sa
by nothrabannosir 8y ago
Sorry to see you're getting downvoted, but it's probably because that's just too long of a story to put in a comment. The parent you're replying to was being sarcastic: he meant to say, "well if we're going to pay other people to do our job, why stop at Heroku? why not pay squarespace even more money to do more work for us?" A reductio ad absurdum.
Ironically, he's right. But, as someone pointed out: Squarespace is probably not relevant in a conversation about Kubernetes, while Heroku is.
What Kubernetes is, is a long story. Suffice to say: if you don't know what it is, count your blessings. :)
- DoreenMichele 8y agoSo, what I'm hearing is that my confusion is justified because Squarespace doesn't do what kubernetes and heroku do. Is that accurate enough?
- nothrabannosir 8y agoyes, but that's on purpose. "This is about Kubernetes, stop changing the subject to Heroku." or something. it's hard to read sarcasm online.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThanks.
- Solar19 8y agoRight. Squarespace is a hosting provider and website builder that anyone should be able to use to build a website, typically a smaller scale website like a blog or a small to medium online store / e-commerce site. It's similar to Wix, Weebly, WordPress.com, and the website builders that some hosting providers offer. Kubernetes is a tool large companies use to manage a large number of servers. Google invented it and open-sourced it so now it's free for anyone to use. It's not something people would use for a single website unless it was a huge website that required lots of servers, like FoxNews.com or something.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThanks. That makes me feel a lot less stupid. It's much more in line with what I thought.
- dankohn1 8y agoKubernetes is a tool that lets Squarespace more efficiently host large numbers of websites on a smaller number of machines. https://www.cncf.io/people/end-user-community/ https://www.cncf.io/people/end-user-community/