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Not trying to troll or anything, but in the age of services like EC2, App Engine, and Heroku, why would anyone get locked into a long term hosting contract with
by josephruscio 17y ago
Not trying to troll or anything, but in the age of services like EC2, App Engine, and Heroku, why would anyone get locked into a long term hosting contract without prior proof of "legs"?
- jacquesm 17y agoNobody is getting locked in to anything but me. EC2, App Engine are lock-in platforms with a price to switch that force your application in to a certain structure. Heroku is free if you can make your stuff work with 5MB of storage.
- easp 17y agoHow is EC2 a "lock-in" platform, particularly when compared to space on a shared server?
- jacquesm 17y agoYou're right about that, EC2 has it's own 'instance storage', which would take the place of the shared hard disk here. I was thinking about integrating S3 when you use EC2, but of course you don't have to use S3.