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I really don't miss running my own kit (colocated or directly owned) I don't miss cycling around Manchester on a Bank Holiday weekend because I'd miscalculated
by pauldambra 4y ago
I really don't miss running my own kit (colocated or directly owned)
I don't miss cycling around Manchester on a Bank Holiday weekend because I'd miscalculated how much network cabling I'd need for an upgrade.
I don't miss keeping a spreadsheet of storage so I knew when to order disks, negotiating with suppliers for cost of new disks because I was buying a slightly smaller bulk than AWS
I don't miss having to explain to folk in datacenter support that they could take the disks out of my failed server and put them in a new server if they had one available
I don't miss the day the single point of failure in the rack failed and everything was offline while I waited for a new doohicky to be shipped to me because it didn't make sense to keep spares of everything on hand
I don't miss trying to figure out if some new generation of server hardware would work for or would fit in my rack as manufacturers stopped making the kit we did use
I'm not going to say every workload should run in the cloud (cliche nod to StackOverflow) but it certainly isn't free to get all of the benefits