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My opinion from analyzing the 37signals cloud offboard case is that it shouldn't have been done. They didn't save a whole lot of money from it (they aren't spe
by roncesvalles 2y ago
My opinion from analyzing the 37signals cloud offboard case is that it shouldn't have been done.
They didn't save a whole lot of money from it (they aren't spending a whole lot on it anyway), and now their business ever so slightly loses focus. Not to mention, as you said, the quality aspects. Cloud gives you many things "for free" (like local disk RAID, network and power redundancy, datacenter compliance, in-transit and on-disk encryption, optimized OS images, overall network security, controls around what their employees can do - that $5/month lowendbox provider from Romania is almost certainly logging into your VM and going through your files) which you lose when going to a "pre-cloud" provider.
- blibble 2y agothere's a mile of difference between Romanian lowendbox.com and renting a cage in, say, an equinix datacentre if this approach to DC compliance/security/redundancy is good enough for the world's financial services industry then it's probably good enough for everyone else too (but yes, then only saves about 90% of the cost instead of 95%)
- tommica 2y agoUmm, millions saved in the future seems like a decent amount of money? Yeah, they paid for the hardware in year 0 that equals to their AWS bill, but the subsequent years that money is not spent on aws or new servers
- roncesvalles 2y agoAlthough it's private so we can never be sure, their revenue seems to be in the ballpark of $100m with about 40% margin. So even if they save a million per year, it's not worth it, especially when it's a trade-off.