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Physical space, building and upgrading the servers, monitoring and replacing components of the servers and their vast storage arrays when they are broken, upgra

by anyfoo 7y ago

Physical space, building and upgrading the servers, monitoring and replacing components of the servers and their vast storage arrays when they are broken, upgrading the hardware, making sure all the software is up to date with latest security patches, reaching either end of life of their version and having to perform major upgrades with potential compatibility problems, cable management, all this at remote locations... Vs. managing an Amazon account from a desk, any desk really, you don’t see the appeal?

latch 7y ago
Imagine you're looking for a new place to live. You go to a realtor and he starts showing you McMansions and telling you how great they are. You say: "But those are really expensive, require a ton of maintenance, and hard to sell later on" Your agent looks at you and says: "Yes but do you really went to find land, get the permits, get it developed, deal with all those contractors and deal with the inevitable problems of a new constructions? A McMansion is obviously better." The agent has apparently never heard of apartments, condos, semi-detached and so on (yet somehow holds a very strong opinion). This is a problem; you find a new agent.
kick 7y ago
I can manage a Hetzner from any desk in the world. Same for basically any other server. Even if that weren't true, it's really simple to do dedicated servers, even if you're not fielding through a company like Hetzner. See this, from the founder of StackOverflow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-servers-for-fun-and-prof-ok-maybe-just-for-fun/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-servers-for-fun-and-p... Dealing with security patches isn't anything you wouldn't already be doing with AWS, and is in some cases easier on dedicated hardware.
- ctack 7y ago
  Someone from Hetzner sales team is going to be giving them a call soon. At least I hope so.

by anyfoo 7y ago

latch 7y ago

Imagine you're looking for a new place to live. You go to a realtor and he starts showing you McMansions and telling you how great they are. You say: "But those are really expensive, require a ton of maintenance, and hard to sell later on" Your agent looks at you and says: "Yes but do you really went to find land, get the permits, get it developed, deal with all those contractors and deal with the inevitable problems of a new constructions? A McMansion is obviously better." The agent has apparently never heard of apartments, condos, semi-detached and so on (yet somehow holds a very strong opinion). This is a problem; you find a new agent.

kick 7y ago

I can manage a Hetzner from any desk in the world. Same for basically any other server. Even if that weren't true, it's really simple to do dedicated servers, even if you're not fielding through a company like Hetzner. See this, from the founder of StackOverflow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-servers-for-fun-and-prof-ok-maybe-just-for-fun/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-servers-for-fun-and-p... Dealing with security patches isn't anything you wouldn't already be doing with AWS, and is in some cases easier on dedicated hardware.

ctack 7y ago
Someone from Hetzner sales team is going to be giving them a call soon. At least I hope so.