glad I wasn't the only one who had that as a first thought. as an ops guys I wasn't sure if I should be offended or just shake my head at the irony of it.
Well apparently someone didn't like my comment since it got down-voted. Whatever. As someone with a background in systems administration, it bothers me when this profession gets left out of the equation, far too often.
Sometimes i think Sys. Admin profession needs a messiah like NNT(for finance) with perhaps the outspokenness/attitude of Zed Shah. That way, there would be a whole lot of increased awareness for the challenges involved in Systems administration.
I would have to agree. But I would also have to agree that Heroku or AWS may have been a better choice than a 1&1 dedicated server in this particular instance.
However, Heroku and AWS are no substitute for good systems administration. They are good substitutes for data centers given signed and documented SLAs.