https://www.fullhost.com/cloud-paas/
I'm intrigued but I'm also a little skeptical. They seem to do too much.
I hadn't heard of FullHost, and I agree, something seems off with their offerings. The site is so noisy. This really stood out to me in their "DevOps Paas" database section: "An Innovative Approach to Clustered Databases".
Like, I totally understand marketing is marketing, but I don't want an innovative approach to foundational technologies. These are things that we know how to work and operate well. Now maybe I'm not their target market, but I want a careful, thoughtful approach.
Also, while I'm sure there are incredibly talented, smart people working at these more local hosting / cloud companies, please, please don't try to innovate with bread and butter services... just make it work, day in, day out. That's what I want. It's why we're still on AWS.
Anyway, I sent FullHost sales a little note with some questions. Will report back.
They tried to suggest their in house Click-Ops layer (they compared it to Cloudformation) was adequate - which is a bit suspect.
They did offer some significant amount of access for exploration for a flat rate of $100. I might just poke around though I really don’t want to spend my time writing an OpenTofu provider.
My thinking on this has shifted a bit, I'm now just thinking I'll set up on Digital Ocean's Toronto data centre. I believe (assume is the right word, I guess) that they have a Canadian subsidiary (I found this: https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.digi...), and if Trump did issue an executive order cutting off Canadian access to American technology, I would hope this would be enough isolation to at least give me enough time to migrate elsewhere without customer impact. Who knows.
Although I still haven't ruled out giving OVH a try.
My email address is in my profile, happy to keep in touch if you turn up other options!
That said, part of the desire to get off AWS is finding slightly less nefarious set of characters to hand money to and Ellison (and his lot) doesn’t fit the bill.
Our biggest concern is a reliable replacement for RDS-postgres, which we've been using for about 13 years now and has been rock solid with the exception of a single, short period. Even then it was an update that caused high baseline CPU usage and AWS had it fixed in a few days.
Cost isn't the primary concern - though lower costs would be a nice side effect.
Shopping list:
- Good OpenTofu (or Terraform) support
- Reliable
- Good managed database (we could roll our own here if needed, I just don't wanna).
- Canadian DC
Nothing we do requires high performance or anything vendor specific. We also roll our own o11y and don't use AWS's vendor-specific solutions (at least not primarily).