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Compared to what? If you ran this yourself, like I do on LightSail, that would be a (worse) one man operation.

by movedx 5y ago

boolean 5y ago
Compared to GitHub Codespaces or LightSail which have proper support teams behind the products.
- deleted 5y ago
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- movedx 5y ago
  LightSail (AWS) don't manage the OS upwards for you.
  - boolean 5y ago
    You're right. However, I'd rather have myself as a single point of failure (for OS and VS Code server) than another individual. Keep in mind that you're also trusting an individual with your codebase.
    - movedx 5y ago
      Good points. I think the OP's service needs to introduce a second person/founder, for sure.
- freemint 5y ago
  If, as i suspect, this is just a resold Hetzner Cloud at a premium, so i would not worry about reliability.
  - boolean 5y ago
    If there's an issue with the server, you cannot reach out to Hetzner directly. You need to contact the individual behind MoonHome who might be asleep or sick.
    - freemint 5y ago
      True.
TheDong 5y ago
The risk of a one-man operation in this case is pretty clear. If the one dude running this gets hit by a bus, your dev environment vanishes and is useless, all data lost. If you instead use LightSail, it's clearly better. You'd need quite a few Amazon employees to be on the same bus before a small accident would result in LightSail vanishing and becoming useless. With both this, and hand-rolled stuff on LightSail, if you get hit by a bus yourself, of course the environment is useless, but that's an identical risk for both of them.
- blunte 5y ago
  These days, aside from configuration (which is no small thing), one's data is often stored or at least very frequently backed up in the cloud. If this service vanished overnight, you would likely just lose the time it takes to tune a similar dev environment. If you have a git repo with your dot files and such, and you use symlinks where possible in your tools to refer to your master config repo, then re-setting up your dev env can be nearly instant. If this service was database hosting, then I would be more concerned about 1-person operation.
- movedx 5y ago
  Fair. But would you rather know it's a one man operation and avoid it, or not know, thinking there is a team, and then get stung in the manner you're suggesting?
  - quaintdev 5y ago
    At least owner conveyed us what is the case and we can give him the feedback that this is my concern and ask him if he can resolve this.
  - novok 5y ago
    Usually in big enough contracts as part of due diligence you find out if something is a one man operation or not.
- PeterStuer 5y ago
  In many midsize and large enterprises critical functions are not redundant. There is just the one person knowing how to do X or Y. If that one person disappears, your service will be down for a long time even if the company still exists.

Compared to what? If you ran this yourself, like I do on LightSail, that would be a (worse) one man operation.

by movedx 5y ago

Compared to what? If you ran this yourself, like I do on LightSail, that would be a (worse) one man operation.

boolean 5y ago

Compared to GitHub Codespaces or LightSail which have proper support teams behind the products.

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movedx 5y ago
LightSail (AWS) don't manage the OS upwards for you.
- boolean 5y ago
  You're right. However, I'd rather have myself as a single point of failure (for OS and VS Code server) than another individual. Keep in mind that you're also trusting an individual with your codebase.
  - movedx 5y ago
    Good points. I think the OP's service needs to introduce a second person/founder, for sure.
freemint 5y ago
If, as i suspect, this is just a resold Hetzner Cloud at a premium, so i would not worry about reliability.
- boolean 5y ago
  If there's an issue with the server, you cannot reach out to Hetzner directly. You need to contact the individual behind MoonHome who might be asleep or sick.
  - freemint 5y ago
    True.

TheDong 5y ago

The risk of a one-man operation in this case is pretty clear. If the one dude running this gets hit by a bus, your dev environment vanishes and is useless, all data lost. If you instead use LightSail, it's clearly better. You'd need quite a few Amazon employees to be on the same bus before a small accident would result in LightSail vanishing and becoming useless. With both this, and hand-rolled stuff on LightSail, if you get hit by a bus yourself, of course the environment is useless, but that's an identical risk for both of them.

blunte 5y ago
These days, aside from configuration (which is no small thing), one's data is often stored or at least very frequently backed up in the cloud. If this service vanished overnight, you would likely just lose the time it takes to tune a similar dev environment. If you have a git repo with your dot files and such, and you use symlinks where possible in your tools to refer to your master config repo, then re-setting up your dev env can be nearly instant. If this service was database hosting, then I would be more concerned about 1-person operation.
movedx 5y ago
Fair. But would you rather know it's a one man operation and avoid it, or not know, thinking there is a team, and then get stung in the manner you're suggesting?
- quaintdev 5y ago
  At least owner conveyed us what is the case and we can give him the feedback that this is my concern and ask him if he can resolve this.
- novok 5y ago
  Usually in big enough contracts as part of due diligence you find out if something is a one man operation or not.
PeterStuer 5y ago
In many midsize and large enterprises critical functions are not redundant. There is just the one person knowing how to do X or Y. If that one person disappears, your service will be down for a long time even if the company still exists.