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My point is not that 100% uptime was a tectonic shift; it's that the ability to enter a credit card and click deploy is a tectonic shift.
by taylorwc 7y ago
My point is not that 100% uptime was a tectonic shift; it's that the ability to enter a credit card and click deploy is a tectonic shift.
- jeswin 7y agoThis was doable well before the advent of what we call now as the "cloud". My first company hosted the product on a shared hosting server, this was back in 1999. Availability was immediate once you paid. Since the early 2000s, dedicated servers were often available within an hour of payment. VM-based hosting took only minutes to get started with. Credit cards were the usual mode of payment, but PayPal was also quite popular. What I'm saying is that cloud hasn't dramatically changed life for startups in their earliest phase of existence.
- ci5er 7y agoFor monolithic web apps, this is almost certainly true (in my experience), but the ability to rapidly turn d/c configurations, and instantly scale to match spot demand has been a game changer (for me)