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They have a contract with an IT professional to handle that sort of thing for them, same as they would have a contract with someone who uses Heroku or Amazon to
by Baeocystin 6y ago
They have a contract with an IT professional to handle that sort of thing for them, same as they would have a contract with someone who uses Heroku or Amazon to fill their IT needs if they were using those servers instead.
- lmm 6y agoIf they've got an in-house sysadmin, you can get a lot of PaaS time for that price. If they've got an agency tasked with looking after their servers, in my experience that's not a great situation; you might get a little more personal attention than you would from a PaaS vendor, but you're always a client rather than a colleague, and you're pretty much paying for the same product that a PaaS would sell you; they might be cheaper, but the worst-case downtime is much longer. If you're outsourcing the whole package of software development and deployment then it's not really your problem any more. But in my experience a surprisingly large number of companies - especially those "family business" sized ones - fit into that window where a handful of in-house developers make sense, but an in-house sysadmin doesn't; sometimes they'll get lucky and one of those developers is happy being a part-time sysadmin, but if not then a PaaS can be a good tradeoff, even if on a per-unit basis it looks expensive.
- Baeocystin 6y agoHelping companies deal with that gap is what I do in a nutshell. It's rather enjoyable- I work directly with the owners to help develop a good IT/Data management plan, then offer monthly service/retainer contracts for the rest of it. No overhead of an agency to account for, so it's cheaper for them, good income for me.