Web hosting: the bane of our existence. Time spent preparing servers, publishing code, dealing with deployment issues — as opposed to throwing money at unreliable oversold shared servers. Here’s why you should leave web hosting to the professionals
When it comes to web hosting, I never run my own servers. I’m a developer, not a sysadmin; I leave server management to the professionals. Shared hosting costs less than a cup of coffee, managed VPS is pretty decent ($7 for LAMP VPS ready to go is pretty good), and these days you’re more likely to hire a sysadmin before a dedicated server.
I’ve seen perfectly good hobby projects by experienced developers run aground because of server issues, when a shared server would have been perfectly good. For root access there’s always VPS.
So, in my mind, when you’re next getting started on a project, don’t spend time getting servers setup. Leave it to the professionals, get a simple shared hosting account (or maybe managed VPS), and get coding.
Akash Mehta in Web |
on Monday, January 28th, 2008 at 1:12 am.
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