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Amazon updates their severs on your behalf. If I had a digital ocean droplet it would be up to me to update the OS and maybe Apache or whatever else would serve
by wil421 5y ago
Amazon updates their severs on your behalf. If I had a digital ocean droplet it would be up to me to update the OS and maybe Apache or whatever else would serve my text only site.
I’ve seen someone miss a Wordpress vuln on a Friday and was hacked by Saturday. Not saying all hosting companies react quickly but they at least have teams of people watching stuff. Peace of mind is a valuable thing if you have other areas to focus on like school or work and family.
- gwern 5y ago> Amazon updates their severs on your behalf. No, they don't, unless I am very misinformed about how Amazon VM images work. If I fire up a Debian AMI, it'll update itself, or not. (How would Amazon 'update it on my behalf'? What if it needs a reboot?)
- wil421 5y agoThe original article is taking about using Amazon CDN not a VM. When you use this hosting type style you are paying someone else to manage the underlying servers. Same with the people who use S3 or Wordpress or whatever namecheap/godaddy provides for static sites. That’s one of the reasons a VM can be $5 vs a CDN at $50 a month.