Running a webserver on bare metal is pretty nutty in 2018 (unless you're getting thousands of requests per second). There are actually a lot of downsides to what you're doing, particularly: you have a single point of failure (in both the lone dedicated server and the single region it's located in), you're probably not even coming close to fully utilizing the box, and could be paying 5-10x what you'd be paying if you had built something on a budget cloud provider. The question should probably be more about what your requirements are for the cloud service you choose, rather than *if* you should be using it.
If you're looking for suggestions: Vultr and DigitalOcean are probably the two best budget IaaS providers out there, I'd suggest auditing them both and making your comparison against rackspace's cloud offering. If you have a ton of money to throw around, obviously AWS and GCP are more than adequate, but you get a lot more bang for your buck with the little(r) guys. Also, if you'd rather be more hands off with the maintenance of your infrastructure, you could outsource that and look into using a PaaS like Heroku. Cheers, Bucky Best, Bucky Wolfe On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Michael L <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to make a decision soon on whether to continue running our website > on a managed dedicated server (with firewall) or hosting our site in the > cloud. > > Can anyone point me in the direction of a solution and/or tell me pitfalls > to avoid? If I understood correctly, one thing Rackspace told me is that a > cloud software firewall is something they can't offer now because of a > software acquisition making it no longer available. > > Thanks for any help. > M > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
