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ITT: "My rasperry has been up for 2 years with almost no downtime, what is up with these suckers?"

• Nextgrid 5y ago
  It's valid criticism for projects that don't need the scale or features that cloud-based solutions offer. A single machine won't give you the same level of scaling and management features, but also won't have hundreds of distributed moving parts that could break and take your service down as a side-effect.
  • Spivak 5y ago
    I feel like you are selling the cloud short for SMBs. The majority of my career has been spent working for shops that have their own datacenters or colo. It's so freaking cheap to run a huge service it's not even funny. And it's a dream to have so much compute and storage floating around that you can "waste" it without even thinking -- it's already paid for! However, when your small the economics flip. You want to run as little as possible as cheap as possible. And a load balancer pointing at a two asgs in different availability zones is by far the cheapest way to get something production ready on the internet. You can go from your garage to a 100M business and probably never need to graduate from this architecture.
• remram 5y ago
  "For a Linux user, you can already build a Google yourself quite trivially with wget -R and grep."