squanderingtime

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by squanderingtime 15y ago
I think we are agreeing here, we're just phrasing it differently. I didn't mean to imply there was a direct cost comparison; just that part of your payment is for them to fund someone's paycheck. In the grand scheme of things it's definitel
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
I think this is a false economy. You're just paying your provider to employ people that are capable of fixing these problems instead of in-housing them. By and large, if you manage physical, owned infrastructure the same way you manage clou
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
I've been on the other end of this spectrum too. Working with a very high profile company (that I unfortunately can't name) we were paying what I'm going to call an astronomical rate for managed cloud operations. Dedicated data center ad
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
From a "what you get" perspective I totally agree with you. I simplified the comparison to core count to have an easier basis to setup the rest of the analysis. I would not be the least bit surprised if I halved those hardware numbers and i
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
To be honest it's impossible to tell without actually measuring it. The #1 rule of scaling a system is to measure the variables your trying to optimize, make a change, and then take measurements again. So without knowing the kind of softwa
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
It's a classic lease vs. buy argument. If you only need a resource for a day, then relatively speaking, it's cheaper. However, if you pay the rental fee every day for a year, it gets more and more expensive than an outright purchase. The
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
It was more of a comparison of the two extreme ends of the spectrum. Total hardware control vs. no hardware control. You're absolutely right that companies like iweb and softlayer offer great intermediate approaches. Personally, I have s
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
That's why I made sure to document that. I have some clients that have an even higher disparity between their peaks and valleys that makes cloud hosting very viable. Auction type sites are a great example. As the time to an auction ending
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
I spent some time trying to put together some numbers. From the research it looks like cost pressure against traditional colocation options has forced the pricing to come down. It still looks like owning your own hardware is a viable, and
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The cost of cloud hosting vs. colocation(chrischandler.name)
127 points by squanderingtime 15y ago|91 comments
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by squanderingtime 15y ago
That was a large motivation behind this. I think a slightly larger problem then their lack of functionality is their arcane-at-best documentation. I'm trying to make the whole standard more approachable in general.
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Certificate Authority implemented in Ruby(github.com)
36 points by squanderingtime 15y ago|3 comments
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by squanderingtime 16y ago
While I generally agree that the OpenSSL library is somewhat horrendous, this specific use-case addresses a very tiny subset of what the library does internally to do some real magic. I used to work for a very large public facing certificat