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I see one really positive point in cloud computing and that is that I can soundly sleep at night :) Of course, cloud is overpriced, slow, and suffers from nois
by fxtentacle 7y ago
I see one really positive point in cloud computing and that is that I can soundly sleep at night :)
Of course, cloud is overpriced, slow, and suffers from noisy neighbors. And keeping things running in the cloud is about the same amount of work as keeping it running on bare-metal. But for customer-visible things, I want to use cloud so that someone else has to get up in the middle of the night when apache crashes.
Sleeping peacefully makes it worth for me to pay $5,000 monthly to Heroku when 2-3x $100 bare metal servers would do. Plus I can cheaply insure against supplier negligence, whereas insuring against employee negligence would be much more expensive.
- artsr 7y agoI like to think that most innovation in IT is driven by people being woken up at 3am..
- neysofu 7y agoInnovations like... the cloud?
- crucialfelix 7y agoAlso important: turning over a finished project to a client who just wants to run the workload and doesn't want to hire full time sysadmins.
- pepemon 7y agoNoisy neighbors tracking can be automated and partially solved then. With cloud you gain access to the provisioning API and with Terraform/Ansible stack (as for example) you are able to build up and manage infra quickly, efficiently and declaratively. Bare metal provisioning can also be automated (as via private cloud solution, for example) but you need dedicated team for that (and nice OpenStackers aren't cheap). I was solo managing 500+ hosts once on public cloud, there is no chance you can do this without what you call "hipster tech" and modern devops toolchain.
- justincredible 7y agoWho are you responding to? No one else has mentioned "hipster tech".