The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by stilist » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 12:02 AM UTC

The Five Stages of Hosting
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Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by kijin » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 12:26 AM UTC

You forgot another popular option that a lot of people use as an alternative to the "monastery" stage: shared hosting (shudder).

Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by moe » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 12:37 AM UTC

Aww, this is a gem. Beautifully written and none of the bias and factual errors that you commonly see in articles on this subject.

Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by crcsmnky » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 12:43 AM UTC

The best part? There's no one "right way", each one has it own ups and downs. Too few authors do this these days and think they have all the answers to everyone's problems.

Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by yanowitz » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 12:49 AM UTC

kijin wrote: post #2

You forgot another popular option that a lot of people use as an alternative to the "monastery" stage: shared hosting (shudder).

Virtual Servers (item 2) are essentially a form of this, albeit with slightly more protection. Debugging application performance in a virtualized (and opaque) environment is...a challenge.

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Post by yanowitz » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 12:52 AM UTC

This is a great list. I've noticed that I always hate whatever option I'm on that's short of "the condo." And even if you have a condo (or a subdivision of blades), there are still the inevitable screwups that leave you cursing your colo. But we live in an imperfect world. We just have to spend money engineering for it.

Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by reedlaw » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 12:58 AM UTC

Where would you go to find a "condo"? There are no links in the article. What is the pricing/reliability/support like having your own server in someone else's data center?

Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by _delirium » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 1:03 AM UTC

This is an excellent write-up; I like the metaphors, and it doesn't feel too much like it's trying to force a preordained conclusion.

One option I have trouble fitting in, though, is the "run your own server locally". This might be #5, except it's often seen as actually a lower-class option than #4, rather than a step up: before you go all out with a colocated server, how about just a machine with Apache sitting in the office hooked up to your office's business-SDSL line?

Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by gojomo » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 1:03 AM UTC

reedlaw wrote: post #7

Where would you go to find a "condo"? There are no links in the article. What is the pricing/reliability/support like having your own server in someone else's data center?

Search for [colocation].

Re: The Five Stages of Hosting

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Post by notatoad » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 1:08 AM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #8

This is an excellent write-up; I like the metaphors, and it doesn't feel too much like it's trying to force a preordained conclusion. One option I have trouble fitting in, though, is the "run your own server locally". This might be #5, except it's often seen as actually a lower-class option than #4, rather than a step up: before you go all out with a colocated server, how about just a machine with Apache sitting in t…

it's probably not included because keeping your production server outside of a datacenter is kind of a silly idea. you save some money, but you don't have the cooling, the power conditioning, the network redundancy, or the security of a proper facility.