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by seanwilson 3247 days ago
Fully agree with this. I see people all the time recommending a VPS, a Digital Ocean droplet, an AWS EC2 box etc. for a company website/app/service because it's "easy" and "any developer worth their salt should be able to admin a server" to save maybe tens of dollars a month. Heroku can be an order of magnitude less effort for example.

I can manage a server manually but I don't want to waste my time doing that. It's never going to be as robust as a cloud service that has a team of staff doing it for you either. Anything that requires me to SSH in makes me cringe now to be honest; it's just way more low level and manual than I want to get involved in when I could be coding.
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pmlnr 3247 days ago
> I can manage a server manually

Ansible? Puppet? Chef?

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seanwilson 3247 days ago
Yes but it's still much more effort than a cloud service that doesn't require you to write, test and maintain scripts like this. The less I have to care about security updates and what state is stored on a disposable server the better.
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