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Wouldn’t your early hires’ time (and equity) be better spent doing the things that make your company unique rather than menial rack-and-stack, cabling, having t
by yuppie_scum 5y ago
Wouldn’t your early hires’ time (and equity) be better spent doing the things that make your company unique rather than menial rack-and-stack, cabling, having to drive to the DC when a disk dies, etc?
- lifeplusplus 5y agoI know a dot-net developer who is a freelancer, he runs 30+ sites from his own dedicated server, not just static sites but ecommerce too. Today with simple setups of Go + Nginx you can go so far. Why even use docker/kubernettes if you are not really deploying to N servers.
- pyuser583 5y agoI mean there’s a middle ground. A while ago I was part of a corporate takeover. The company being taken over was bleeding money to AWS. The new owners, who knew nothing about tech, held a series of meetings where it was decided we would rent a server at a data center (maintenance included), and move everything to Kubernetes. Not only was the cost reduced by a factor of 100s, but efficiency increases, and errors decreased. It was a decision with no downsides. To this day I’m still stumped why AWS is preferred over doing it yourself. I know the arguments. But for many small companies, a box in the wall (with a backup on a different continent) should do it.