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Not just that, it's also all the legwork of managed hosting: all that OS configuration, patching, redundancy, testing, monitoring etc etc is someone else's job,
by imglorp 3y ago
Not just that, it's also all the legwork of managed hosting: all that OS configuration, patching, redundancy, testing, monitoring etc etc is someone else's job, and they are accountable. Plus other managed services like LB, DB, auth, etc etc. you might not want to duct tape yourself and manage every day. That cloud bill could be cheaper than your time is worth.
Plus flexibility of scale up / scale down as needed for load, transient testing, etc.
Cloud is definitely not for everyone but it makes sense for some.
- rapind 3y ago> that OS configuration, patching, redundancy, testing, monitoring etc. For larger projects I guess, but I have a few VPSes that have been running sites for a decade or more that require almost no maintenance (occasional apt-get upgrade). In fact it’s the frameworks / languages these projects were built in that cause most of the work (for which deployment target makes no difference).
- jmaker 3y agoWith IaC it’s become feasible. You kinda iteratively build it up. With something more predictable like Nix it really gets close to shops run by a single person. And on e you start to get managed infrastructure, next question that pops up would often be which services do you want to delegate, and some folks wind up in serverless land—locked in after a while, which might be totally fine.