Re:The Cloud Is Not for You
by gojomo on Saturday June 02, 2012 @11:44PM
(#4060004)
Happy user of both Heroku and (recently) GetSentry here.
I think the author may be undervaluing how useful it was to, "for the first couple of months", survive on the off-the-shelf offerings. He didn't have to spend 3 days learning server configurations. He could instead expand his service "to cover nearly all popular languages".
He only had to switch -- spending effort on researching alternatives and learning new systems -- after knowing the growth path of his business, the pain-points of his architecture, and the baseline costs of a cloud solution. Heroku's turnkey environment, warts and all, got him to the point where he knew enough about his business situation to make rational optimization changes.
And if the 'shape' of his architecture, growth, and personal expertise was slightly different, he might be just adding dynos and upgrades inside the Heroku system today, happy to be paying them far more than his peak $700 cloud bill.
I think the author may be undervaluing how useful it was to, "for the first couple of months", survive on the off-the-shelf offerings. He didn't have to spend 3 days learning server configurations. He could instead expand his service "to cover nearly all popular languages".
He only had to switch -- spending effort on researching alternatives and learning new systems -- after knowing the growth path of his business, the pain-points of his architecture, and the baseline costs of a cloud solution. Heroku's turnkey environment, warts and all, got him to the point where he knew enough about his business situation to make rational optimization changes.
And if the 'shape' of his architecture, growth, and personal expertise was slightly different, he might be just adding dynos and upgrades inside the Heroku system today, happy to be paying them far more than his peak $700 cloud bill.