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Indeed! For me all hosted solutions are automatically dead. Too many startups just disappear so quick that I would never do business with them. (And while FogCr

by atesti 14y ago

Indeed! For me all hosted solutions are automatically dead. Too many startups just disappear so quick that I would never do business with them. (And while FogCreek hasn't disappeared so far, at least WebPutty is gone) Given that this is a unpopular view around here anyway, I want to add another thought: If your company has it's own webpage at datacenter A, including payment from datacenter/service B with CDN C and Twitter-integration D, using hosted FogBugz for support mails, hosting it's CSS-stylesheets on TRELLO which was baked by Google AppEngine, and using email provider E... Why don't you have downtime at leas one a quarter??? How can a system that relies on so many components and other companies be reliable? With all those AWS-outtakes? I don' understand this. If you host most of your stuff yourself, either everything works, or nothing. But not all goes down at the same time.

tghw 14y ago
Just to be clear, WebPutty is not gone. It's operational for another few months on Fog Creek's dime[1]. After that (or now, if you'd like) you can easily host it yourself on App Engine, probably for free, now that it's open source[2]. [1] https://www.webputty.net/ https://www.webputty.net/ [2] https://github.com/fogcreek/webputty https://github.com/fogcreek/webputty
- atesti 14y ago
  If a service one once used is retired, open sourcing it is of course the very best outcome. Thanks for that!!! However (regarding AppEngine based solutions), as far as I know, if AppEngine goes down, there is no way to have any backup, is it? Only google can host AppEngine apps.