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Frankly, articles like these are a deterrent to all but the most techie of people. Why go through all this and shell $270 when you can get an Amazon EC2 instanc

by jkuria 14y ago

Frankly, articles like these are a deterrent to all but the most techie of people. Why go through all this and shell $270 when you can get an Amazon EC2 instance free for a year!

chewxy 14y ago
Did you read the article? You still need to setup nginx or apache or whatever on EC2. Page 2 onwards actually deals with these things
- pan69 14y ago
  Yeah. So why pay $270?
  - rburhum 14y ago
    Perhaps you need storage in terabytes for something. 12TB on your own machine is relatively cheap. On AWS, not so much. Read speed is another factor.
Stealth- 14y ago
As far as being "the most techie of people", this article is actually quite basic and gives a very easy introduction.
thedufer 14y ago
Honestly, its a much easier setup on your own box. You have the option of a GUI, and I've found installing a linux distro on my own box to be much easier than figuring out EC2.
- BigRedS 14y ago
  I'm not sure where a GUI comes in handy here - it's not like there's any good GUI (in the traditional sense) tools for fiddling with webserver config. Even were I to want one on a webserver on the localhost I'd probably just install webmin or something, which you can do equally well on a VM somewhere else.
  - thedufer 14y ago
    If you're not already comfortable with the command line, Ubuntu's package manager GUI is a hell of a lot more intuitive than apt-get. After that, a simple text editor is easier to work with than nano, emacs, vim, etc. for changing config files. That said, I wouldn't use a GUI for such things, but I would still prefer my own box. The big power button is a lot easier than EC2s endless menus and options. I say this from the perspective of someone who's used EC2 for a couple of project - imagine someone who's never seen it before.
dkokelley 14y ago
It's considerably more than $270 if you're using your own hardware. Consider bandwidth and energy costs. I do wish the article gave more attention to VPS providers like AWS or Rackspace, but I don't see how anything in the article could discourage someone from administering their own server (that is, of the set of people who aren't already put off by scary command lines). 90% of the article is relevant to someone with a VPS. FWIW, my current costs for a single dev server at Rackspace (initially Slicehost) are about $12-$20/month ($240 max for a year), which probably costs less than the electricity my current computer is using.

by jkuria 14y ago

Frankly, articles like these are a deterrent to all but the most techie of people. Why go through all this and shell $270 when you can get an Amazon EC2 instance free for a year!

chewxy 14y ago

Did you read the article? You still need to setup nginx or apache or whatever on EC2. Page 2 onwards actually deals with these things

pan69 14y ago
Yeah. So why pay $270?
- rburhum 14y ago
  Perhaps you need storage in terabytes for something. 12TB on your own machine is relatively cheap. On AWS, not so much. Read speed is another factor.

Stealth- 14y ago

As far as being "the most techie of people", this article is actually quite basic and gives a very easy introduction.

thedufer 14y ago

Honestly, its a much easier setup on your own box. You have the option of a GUI, and I've found installing a linux distro on my own box to be much easier than figuring out EC2.

BigRedS 14y ago
I'm not sure where a GUI comes in handy here - it's not like there's any good GUI (in the traditional sense) tools for fiddling with webserver config. Even were I to want one on a webserver on the localhost I'd probably just install webmin or something, which you can do equally well on a VM somewhere else.
- thedufer 14y ago
  If you're not already comfortable with the command line, Ubuntu's package manager GUI is a hell of a lot more intuitive than apt-get. After that, a simple text editor is easier to work with than nano, emacs, vim, etc. for changing config files. That said, I wouldn't use a GUI for such things, but I would still prefer my own box. The big power button is a lot easier than EC2s endless menus and options. I say this from the perspective of someone who's used EC2 for a couple of project - imagine someone who's never seen it before.

dkokelley 14y ago

It's considerably more than $270 if you're using your own hardware. Consider bandwidth and energy costs. I do wish the article gave more attention to VPS providers like AWS or Rackspace, but I don't see how anything in the article could discourage someone from administering their own server (that is, of the set of people who aren't already put off by scary command lines). 90% of the article is relevant to someone with a VPS. FWIW, my current costs for a single dev server at Rackspace (initially Slicehost) are about $12-$20/month ($240 max for a year), which probably costs less than the electricity my current computer is using.