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Anyone else remember we had widely available and completely understandable options to rent everything from baseline web-hosting all the way up to private rack s
by ToucanLoucan 2y ago
Anyone else remember we had widely available and completely understandable options to rent everything from baseline web-hosting all the way up to private rack services for actual years before AWS came along and apparently all of that was forgotten, Warhammer 40K style?
I've rented a VPS from a vendor for going on 20 years now (Holy fuck I'm old) and I've never once been surprised at the bill.
- LAC-Tech 2y agoRemember? Your own comment tells us this is not a distant memory! It is still available! And a lot of people use it.
- maliker 2y agoYou know that book "JavaScript: The Good Parts"? There needs to be a similar one "AWS: just the good parts". It would probably talk about EC2 (VPS), S3 (cheap bulk storage), SES (emails), and that's about it. When folks get into the elastic-super-beanstalk-container-swarm-v0.3 products, that's when they really kill themselves on the bills. That said, yes, just using a VPS vendor is the easy way to stick to the good parts.
- Aeolun 2y agoI’ll argue that while wonky sometimes, ECS is pretty decent. Especially once you use fargate.
- ec109685 2y agoAWS the Good Parts (a bit dated now): https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/l/aws-good-parts https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/l/aws-good-parts
- otteromkram 2y ago> "AWS: just the good parts" I can't imagine a zero-page book selling well...
- StimDeck 2y agoObviously subjective, but Lambda seems more cost efficient than EC2. And really gives cloud vibes.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoYou still can. My company rents space from Cogent communications, and they are very good at customer service, although the offering of "rent a cage and get a pipe" is a lot more DIY than AWS. They also offer VPSes.
- ragall 2y agoIn other words, you have fully reserved compute. That's the way to avoid surprises, but certainly not the way to minimize costs for a large company.