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Neat! Why buy a hosting company vs setting up some servers?
by mrfusion 5y ago
Neat! Why buy a hosting company vs setting up some servers?
- sbarre 5y agoNot OP, but better margins I assume, for roughly the same work/responsibility?
- fxtentacle 5y agoYes and no. Quite a lot of my customers have designed their systems around separation of concerns, so they need 100 small services running. By having my own layer in the middle, I can group those 100 service VMs onto 10 beefy physical servers, as opposed to actually needing 100 bare-metal servers to run their 100 services. But in the end, yes, I have roughly the same responsibility and much better margins.
- fxtentacle 5y agoFor their software management stack. My customers want API compatibility with AWS and convenient deployments like on Heroku. So I needed a software layer to convert bare metal boxes into Cloud VMs and to imitate necessary APIs. And of course base images, buildpacks, etc. to convert a git link into a runnable docker image, like what Heroku does. So basically I purchased them for all the scripts, tools, and stuff that happens between "Customer does a git push" and "Docker images are running on the correct bare-metal servers with the correct configuration"