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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by Nextgrid on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:36AM (#26235735)
Is that a real problem with a reputable bare-metal hosting provider? I agree that a fly-by-night VPS provider would be a major risk, but OVH for example is a major host in Europe (that successfully hosted websites long before the "cloud" was a thing). They have all the major certifications and have been in the business for two decades now and their uptime is solid.

The only risk I can see is the lack of managed services, but Postgres isn't that hard to manage yourself, and other value-add AWS services can still be used (the cost savings of your baseline load being on bare-metal would most likely still offset the bandwidth costs of moving data between AWS managed services and your bare-metal host).

Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by ok123456 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:02AM (#26238818)
I just call our OVH services "the could" to placate people.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by roguas on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:39AM (#26237770)
Sure cherrypicking postgres since it has more experience as "on-prem". Try and replicate s3 type of service for me or something like sns - even without fancy stuff.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by Nextgrid on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:45AM (#26247303)
You can still use S3 even without being on AWS, though for more reasonable (< 1TB) amounts of data, old school local storage served by Nginx does the trick.

For SNS, what does it offer that RabbitMQ doesn't? I've always found RMQ to be rock-solid and wouldn't use SNS anyway.