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What I don't get is that the administration is pretty much equivalent between the 2. I spent a ton of time learning how to run recipes for EngineYard, and how t
by AznHisoka 13y ago
What I don't get is that the administration is pretty much equivalent between the 2. I spent a ton of time learning how to run recipes for EngineYard, and how to restart my processes, and how to kick off SOLR as soon as I deployed... For all the hype that these cloud/PAAS gets, you'd think it's as easy as clicking a button, checking a few boxes, etc.
Ever since I moved to managing my own servers, it got arguably easier. I wrote a Capistrano script that builds and deploys everything to production.
- baruch 13y agoThe issue with managing your own servers is that you are tied 1:1 to specific hardware. Something fails? You have no server. Need an upgrade? It's a financial outlay. You may lease the hardware and you may also lease the hardware maintenance. In an environment like AWS you wouldn't really care about the hardware. Your instance would have died and you'd restart it and hope for a better hardware. You do trade ease on the hardware front with battling with the unknowns of the cloud. You just need to pick your battles. Hardware battles normally require more work and understanding of the hardware and a lot more menial work (RMA of an AWS instance is far simpler than RMA of a server).