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I've used many of the top VPS providers: Slicehost, Rackspace, Linode, Digital Ocean and AWS. I don't think anyone could beat Amazon at making the process of pr
by backwardm 13y ago
I've used many of the top VPS providers: Slicehost, Rackspace, Linode, Digital Ocean and AWS. I don't think anyone could beat Amazon at making the process of provisioning a fresh server instance more complex. Granted, this is from the perspective of someone using their web interface to do so. Digital Ocean has made that same process incredibly easy and kinda fun.
- cmwelsh 13y agoSometimes I wonder if Amazon is purposely limiting their target audience to technical users by implementing their AWS UI in a manner that the average person cannot understand.
- jcastro 13y agoThey likely don't care about one off people who fire up instances via the web UI, they want the kind of company that will ask for hundreds and thousands over their API.
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- JeremyMorgan 13y agoexactly what I was thinking. Making "point and click" servers isn't the greatest idea in the world, and those folks are more difficult/time consuming to support I imagine.
- kbar13 13y agobased on the amount of effort they've put into their API, pretty sure they're targeting corps/companies that will build extensive api bindings for their infrastructure.
- threeseed 13y agoSure. But Amazon's raison d'etre is medium to large customers who need the flexibility and power and don't mind the complexity. If you are smaller then simply go higher up in the stack with the "built on Amazon" services e.g. Heroku, IronMQ/IronIO, MongoHQ.
- neurotech1 13y agoThe problem with Rackspace, AWS especially is with consolidation in the market, they get lazy and don't innovate. I was at an event last night for a Neural Network PaaS startup[1][2], and there is no way he could efficiently build on AWS. [1] http://ersatz1.com/ http://ersatz1.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072958