[treis]

>In 6 years, there were only 3 outages that weren't my fault.

How many where there that were your fault? And of those, how many would have been avoided by using Heroku?

>All at the cost of office rent ($1000) + FIOS ($359) + Cloudflare costs and S3 for images and backups.

What about the time spent creating and maintaining this infrastructure?

[unbearded]

I'm not sure how many outages I could avoid using Heroku, but I guess at least a few.

One time I was using Docker for a 2 TB MongoDB and it messed the iptables rules. I notice everything slow for a few days until the database disappeared and when I logged in to check, there was a ransom note.

I flew from Boca Raton to NJ to recover the backup and audit if that was the only breach. That was the longest outage.

Like Rome, this infrastructure was not created in one day. Adding Optane storage is something more recent, for example. Or adding a remote KVM to make easier to manage than dealing with multiple DRACS, which I did after a moved to Florida.

But I'm not against using the cloud. I'm actually very in favor. What I'm against is waste.

In my case, being very conservative with my costs and still have a lot of resources available allowed me to try and keep trying many different ideas in the search for product/market fit.

[Rafuino]

Are you using the Optane SSDs for Ceph as you mentioned in your original comment? Curious what benefit you're seeing if not for Ceph, and if for something else, would you mind commenting? We're looking to share best practices with the community we're building over at acceleratewithoptane.com on how to take advantage of Optane SSDs.