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I think you’re right. But I think you and the OP are probably coming from different perspectives. Yes if you have frequent scaling issues you probably need the
by jumpman500 7y ago
I think you’re right. But I think you and the OP are probably coming from different perspectives. Yes if you have frequent scaling issues you probably need the cloud. But a lot of companies shouldn’t have ever have scaling issues and are buying into the cloud to be hip. Just like Hadoop and other big data technologies they didn’t need in 2014.
Ya just gotta know your business needs.
- notatoad 7y agoBut how many companies are never going to have scaling issues, and also have the resources to hire a good in-house sysadmin to manage their servers? And sure, maybe you have somebody on staff who can handle the sysadmin duties now, but what if they leave? Do you still have the resources to maintain your own servers? The author's advice is good for basically one scenario: a personal hobby project run by somebody who already knows they would prefer to run their own servers instead of use a cloud host.
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- jumpman500 7y ago> But how many companies are never going to have scaling issues, and also have the resources to hire a good in-house sysadmin to manage their servers? The ones that know how hire good people. If a company can’t hold on to talent then they’ll probably fail eventually. Cloud won’t fix bad management.
- eridius 7y agoYou need good people before you can hire good people. If you don't already have any sysadmins on your staff, how are you supposed to identify the good sysadmin candidates from the bad ones?
- jumpman500 7y agoInterviews and recommendations from other talented people in your company. Nothing is gonna be perfect. Not ever company is gonna succeed.
- chovy 7y agoI agree, this guy looks like he's referring to startups with less than 1M views/month. You can get a $20 vps with scaling for that kind of traffic.