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Might need more context than that... worth it for what? Hosting a random experimental personal project? I bet it is. Hosting a small app for a small business
by dingosity 4y ago
Might need more context than that... worth it for what? Hosting a random experimental personal project? I bet it is. Hosting a small app for a small business? Maybe. Hosting for a large multi-national corporation? Who knows?
I have a to-do item on my task backlog that says "look at linode now that they were bought by akamai, see if they're worth the fees."
I have two classes of apps: small-scale apps that don't use a lot storage, but might benefit from Akamai's CDN. So if there's an easy way to deploy redundant app servers and stage static content and it's cheaper than GCP or AWS, I'll certainly look at it. I'm hopeful.
But I also have apps that are bigger, require an annoying level of integration with customers' IAM systems. I suspect I may be courting disaster. But if there's anyone in Boston who can tell me how to easily integrate an AWS hosted federated identity system safely with their edge computing systems, I'm all ears.
- chirau 4y agoI definitely should have noted that. My bad. I previously used it for small to medium scale. My largest implementation was about 300 nodes for a bootstrap SAAS I run for some fund guys. The rest are anything from 4 to 100 nodes amongst other infra.