12 Sep
2015
12 Sep
'15
12:30 a.m.
Can I beg to differ, having had a quick play with Azure I quite like "cloud"
solutions.
However they usually don't deliver what managers expect as usually it is only the
hardware that?s in the cloud.
You don't get the Systems Admin done for you. You will often have to back it up. Worse
still its expensive.
Where I last worked we basically ran "servers as a service" using a VMWare farm.
We tried to fully cost our servers but the price we came up with was still about 10% of
commercial cloud providers.
I use a "hosted" web site for the local Radio Club on a shared server in the
cloud. Its about $100 dollars a year.
I honestly can't beat it. We have MySql and run a main web server using
"Drupal" for the "Normal" club stuff, plus a second with
"Moodle" for the UK Ham Radio exams we run training for.
It also hosts my Vintage computing pages...
I would probably need three boxes at home to do the same thing. Give me a cloud any
day....
... which reminds me I havn't backed it up for a while.....
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Sean
Caron
Sent: 11 September 2015 16:08
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>; Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu>
Subject: Re: internet blocking problem ?
Me too, especially as a working sys admin ... the business model is not really
original ... just the old time "service bureau" or "timesharing
company" but
we have to have a hip new marketing catchname for it, LOL...
Well, if I've learned one thing, the computer industry is kind of like the
fashion industry ... cyclical ... one year it will be distributed services; ten years
later it's centralization ... one year "cloud" is the fad ... but I think
in ten years
we'll all be moving to pull our services back in house, LOL.
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Ben wrote....
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> What I find more annoying, is this cloud crap.
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> "There is no such thing as 'the cloud', it's just someone
else's computer."
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> Love that quote... so true... and I sell cloud services ;)
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> J
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