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I Exited the Cloud
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- DHPersonal 2y agoOh, it’s time for the cycle to flip back to on-premises servers?
- gibibit 2y agoTechnically he is suggesting renting a dedicated server hosted in a Hetzner remote data center. So in some ways it's halfway between "cloud" and "on-premises" hosting.
- quantified 2y agoHe's clear about going for smaller use-cases, not enterprise-scale.
- nasmorn 2y agoDoesn’t fully convince me as having a single physical server is very different than a managed DB. If you have a disk failure you will be down until that is resolved. Which is in fact the exact scenario that happened to a client of mine and which led me to migrate to the cloud
- gomerspiles 2y agoUnless I missed something this is a VPS in a cloud, so really its not about replacing hardware to get back up. There's certainly an interesting problem of scale and redundancy where I think you need 3+ half full racks to really be efficiently running in DCs and then have to consider how their markup relates to your inefficiency if you are running a lot less.
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- erik_seaberg 2y agoWith serious users, I would feel compelled to warn about the outage risks I were taking.
- RadiozRadioz 2y agoHonestly, us-east-1 has gone down more times in the past 5 years than my VPS has.
- erik_seaberg 2y agoI agree that their "availability zone" story isn't solving the problem, so a quorum should span regions rather than just us-east-1a through 1e.
- YmiYugy 2y agoI actually thought the opposite. If you are small you want to move quickly and spend as much energy as possible on developing the product not managing infrastructure. There is a lot involved, OS updates, certificate management, secrets, multiple tiers of backups, but also monitoring and alerts, etc. If you have a lot of customers and server cost on the other hand, it makes sense to employ a dev ops team, that can focus on optimizing costs.