Comment by jabzd

We're in the healthcare space so we have to own our hardware and co-locate. Being a small outfit, sometimes it's so frustrating trying to find the right resources online these days related to racking and configuring your own bare metal! I can definitely appreciate the 6 weeks to 6 seconds. We recently added a new database server because we were really struggling at peak times. The 5 weeks it took between ordering the $25k server, configuring base os, racking it, replicating current data to it, and then choreographing the switch was brutal. Due to the nature of our product, it had to be a zero-downtime switch. Somedays, I wish it was as simple as clicking upgrade instance on AWS RDS. Other days, I make myself feel better by calculating the thousands I'm saving a month.