Re:A developer goes to a DevOps conference
by oxfordmale on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:24AM
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How much would you have to pay a sysadmin to install, maintain and monitor an in house hosted server ? How much would you have to pay to have daily snapshots of your instance ? And what do you do with the old server if there is a change in business strategy and you either need a much bigger server, or no longer need this server at all.
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Re:A developer goes to a DevOps conference
by evgen on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:47AM
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Are you suggesting that someone running in the cloud suddenly has no need of an ops team? This is the danger in drinking the DevOps Kool-aid, assuming that because a developer can manage to not completely fuck-up their dev box they are somehow proficient enough at system administration to manage cloud infra.
Daily snapshots? For the prices listed you could have an actual hot spare running 24x7 and still save money. This also makes surge-up easier and if you ask nicely a lot of decent dedicated hosting providers will let you shrink without holding you to contract terms.
Re:A developer goes to a DevOps conference
by 1337shadow on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:13AM
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Absolutely correct, if anybody wants to pass an AWS DevOps certification: https://aws.amazon.com/fr/certification/certified-devops-eng... (I won't)
Re:A developer goes to a DevOps conference
by jjeaff on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:04AM
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The comparison above is not AWS vs an in house hosted server. It's dedicated bare metal. If something happens with the hardware on those dedicated servers, the hosting company handles it for you.
And even most dedicated servers can optionally come preinstalled with the OS.
Re:A developer goes to a DevOps conference
by 1337shadow on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:18AM
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Absolutely, it can even install Proxmox if you want something that supports snapshots (I prefer to "just do remote secure incremental data backups")