You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure

Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by mruts on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:12PM (#19361861)

Maybe I'm weird, but I like servers that I can touch. Maybe if you're only a couple person company, it makes sense to use the cloud. But just paying for some space at a data-center and having your own servers seems ideal for any company medium and above sized start-up.

My last job was at a financial start-up worth about 200M at the time. And our server setup was dead simple: 8 servers and a load balancer. No containers, no bullshit, just servers running JVMs.

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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by tim333 on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:32PM (#19363037)

Coding Horror just have a discussion on using colocation for Discourse. Seems kind of ok really https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-else...

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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by pcoutin on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:39PM (#19374195)

I don't see any real disadvantage as long as you have IaC.

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