Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by AlexCoventry on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:02AM (#18722812)

> the choice between "run an entire data centre ourselves, store everything there"

If those were the only two choices, you might be right. But the resources needed for the actual CMS functionality sound modest enough to run independently of the main website.

> the client computer that connects to the CMS is just as, or more likely to be compromised

That's faulty reasoning.

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Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by untog on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:44AM (#18723838)

> That's faulty reasoning.

Why? It's an obvious potential point of compromise.

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Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by AlexCoventry on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:41AM (#18724767)

Sorry, I misunderstood. I read it as saying "We're going to get hacked via this other vector, anyway, so why bother?" I see your point, now.

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