Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by tjbiddle on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:37AM
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Thanks! Aware of Lightsail - But I'm experienced with AWS so have no trouble with, and prefer, the full feature set. I would've gone with Digital Ocean, otherwise.
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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by krab on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:54AM
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Out of curiosity, what you're missing at Digital Ocean? It seems it has all the basics (VMs, managed DBs, storage, load balancers) and for a better price than the bigger clouds.
I find it quite easy to mix services from multiple providers. For example add SQS or S3 from Amazon and Elasticsearch from elastic.co if your cloud doesn't have the products. The latency kills mostly just the connection from a web app to its database.
The biggest drawback is multiple invoices, but I think it's manageable.