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2005: no cloud, had to order 1Us, wait, rack up. Needed a DBA for the database, a network sysadmin for the networking, all to serve a simple website with not th
by lazyant 4y ago
2005: no cloud, had to order 1Us, wait, rack up. Needed a DBA for the database, a network sysadmin for the networking, all to serve a simple website with not the same level of HA. We are doing way more now, which needs some more complexity and yes, in many cases we are overengineering it.
- iso1631 4y ago2005 Linode sold me VMs, no need for a DBA or network admin for a simple main/reserve website 17 years later and getting more than 364 days uptime out of AWS is apparently "not worth the cost"