I have a question: I'm doing an ambitious Web site startup; current status, rushing to alpha test; and from this thread and more I wonder about servers and our server farm and in-house network, that is, for the options here, in-house, co-location, AWS, Azure, etc. I'm using Microsoft's software, Windows, .NET, SQL Server, etc.
Q. For many of the reasons given in this thread, etc., I'm leaning to having our own in-house servers, server farm, etc. For that, is there a source of information I will be able to use, say, as consulting, depending on the issue, an hour, day, week, month at a time, to get us past the chuckholes in the road on the usual work -- system and network planning, installation, configuration, monitoring, diagnosis, correction, etc.? E.g., can I just call Microsoft for such issues, CloudFlare, VMWare, Cisco, etc.? Assume that money to pay for the products and consulting will not be a problem.
If the broad answer is "Yes", then that will take a lot of entries off my TODO list and let me sleep better.
Q. For many of the reasons given in this thread, etc., I'm leaning to having our own in-house servers, server farm, etc. For that, is there a source of information I will be able to use, say, as consulting, depending on the issue, an hour, day, week, month at a time, to get us past the chuckholes in the road on the usual work -- system and network planning, installation, configuration, monitoring, diagnosis, correction, etc.? E.g., can I just call Microsoft for such issues, CloudFlare, VMWare, Cisco, etc.? Assume that money to pay for the products and consulting will not be a problem.
If the broad answer is "Yes", then that will take a lot of entries off my TODO list and let me sleep better.
Thanks.