"when previously you needed just two servers in failover setup, with capacity to spare."
I don't know if you were there but I said the same shit to people here on HN in a hosting discussion. Some company had downtime on AWS and/or a bunch of servers. I said something along lines of how hard can it be to buy four servers at $1-2k each, set them up as HA pairs of pairs, send two to a colo, and manage that? And optionally send another pair to a third, geographical area if one wants more uptime? It's not that hard given we've been doing it since friggin' VMS clusters on refrigerator-sized VAXen. Just dirt cheap now for basic solution. OSS tools are even good enough for homebrewing it with little risk now.
Nah, though, let's pay for a bunch of VM's we have to manage anyway that we don't even control on sites with less uptime. (rolls eyes)
"but I don't really understand how any of this SSL stuff works", there is just one realistic response. Run. Then run some more, hide, change your email and don't answer your phone. Because that shit is about to go down like the titanic."
LOL. That's great. Someone with a meme generator needs to make an image out of this: "DevOps: Replaces Admins, Can't Deploy SSL." I can imagine quite a few more in capacity and disaster planning. Now what image would go with that...?
I don't know if you were there but I said the same shit to people here on HN in a hosting discussion. Some company had downtime on AWS and/or a bunch of servers. I said something along lines of how hard can it be to buy four servers at $1-2k each, set them up as HA pairs of pairs, send two to a colo, and manage that? And optionally send another pair to a third, geographical area if one wants more uptime? It's not that hard given we've been doing it since friggin' VMS clusters on refrigerator-sized VAXen. Just dirt cheap now for basic solution. OSS tools are even good enough for homebrewing it with little risk now.
Nah, though, let's pay for a bunch of VM's we have to manage anyway that we don't even control on sites with less uptime. (rolls eyes)
"but I don't really understand how any of this SSL stuff works", there is just one realistic response. Run. Then run some more, hide, change your email and don't answer your phone. Because that shit is about to go down like the titanic."
LOL. That's great. Someone with a meme generator needs to make an image out of this: "DevOps: Replaces Admins, Can't Deploy SSL." I can imagine quite a few more in capacity and disaster planning. Now what image would go with that...?