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No. We rolled our own stack for 10 years, until 2018, well after AWS and Azure were around. We switched to Azure in 2018 and never looked back. Sure you trade
by mvkel 3y ago
No. We rolled our own stack for 10 years, until 2018, well after AWS and Azure were around.
We switched to Azure in 2018 and never looked back.
Sure you trade security (do you really, though?) in exchange for:
- not needing to head to the DC because a power supply failed and a rando who was in the cage never plugged in the redundant one
- not having to be way over-capacity in scalability, or suddenly under-capacity and emergency ordering some more 1Us
- not sifting through eBay to buy a spare hard drive that one of your boxes from 2011 needs but dell no longer makes
and the list goes on ad infinitum.
This problem has been solved. It's time to move on. Any time a company spends tinkering with their stack is less time spent delivering something of value.
- NorwegianDude 3y agoThen there are options that are probably better for you. I've been doing colocation for many years, but I've never seen the inside of the datacenter. Remote hands set up the hardware for me and replace failed hardware. The service is so rarely needed that it's basically free. In recent years I've started to rent the hardware I want as I want more frequent changes. I tell my host what hardware I want and they'll acquire it and install it. If you're running very old hardware that you can't even buy replacement drives for then you are doing something very wrong. Need to scale fast? Then I don't have to wait for servers to arrive, I use their cloud offering that's in the same network. I agree that it's a solved problem, but the solution to anything somewhat permanent is not the cloud. It's not really any harder to run your own hardware.
- mvkel 3y agoAll of those things still require management, which is the issue at hand here. Also if you're renting your hardware... for a subscription ... that sounds an awful lot like the cloud with extra steps.