On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Jeffrey Van Voorst <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I don't understand is why so many people *want* to buy into the > hype of things like beacon push or platform as a service. These > things appear to be low cost up front, but if you want high > availability, they seem to cost more than doing it in house. My > opinion is that slick marketing and slick looking websites are to > appeal to non technical people to convince them to force their web > developers to be locked into proprietary solutions. someone i know did a brief analysis, he said that if you require less than 6 servers, get a leased virtual instance xN (e.g. xtrahost.co.uk). if it's around 6 servers, get your own machine and co-lo it. above that, it turns out to be much cheaper to rent amazon EC2 instances. ... but most people don't do that kind of analysis :) l.
