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> Doing your own ops has never been that hard I kind of disagree. It's doable, but still requires maintenance. For instance, even running a simple blog off of
by skohan 6y ago
> Doing your own ops has never been that hard
I kind of disagree. It's doable, but still requires maintenance. For instance, even running a simple blog off of a VPS requires you to worry about setting up an SSL certificate and keeping it renewed, staying on top of security updates, and putting together some kind of scaling solution assuming you ever want to write a post which gets to the front page of hacker news.
I think there's definitely an argument at a certain scale to just outsourcing that complexity so you can actually work on what contributes to your unique value proposition.
- 10000truths 6y agoYour examples are poor. LetsEncrypt and certbot automated cert renewals a long time ago. If you’re still having to manually renew your SSL certs, you’ve picked a crappy vendor. Security updates are also as simple as a cron job that runs your favorite package manager update command. You want to run those commands on multiple machines? Use the several different FOSS orchestration platforms that make it easy for you to deploy and configure your distributed services. Sure, these things take some initial set up, but it’s nothing that can’t be accomplished in a few business days for a start-up.