Come on startups, you should be technically skilled and able to optimize in order to spend
little money. If you sum EC2 and Heroku you are going to pay like 10x what it takes to run the same machines power in a dedicated server, all this because you can't handle the operations? This is absurd IMHO.
Also people that want to start a business, there is a huge opportunity here, create software that makes managing Apache, Redis, PostgreSQL, ..., in dedicated servers very easy and robust. Traget a popular and robust non-commercial distribution like Ubuntu LTE, and provide all is needed to deploy web nodes, database nodes, with backups, monitoring, and everything else trivial.
Startups can give you 5% of what they are giving now to EC2 and Heroku and you still will make a lot of money.
"I can only write my Ruby code but can't handle operations" is not the right attitude, grow up. (This is what, in a different context, a famous security researcher told me in a private mail 15 years ago, and it was the right advice)
Also people that want to start a business, there is a huge opportunity here, create software that makes managing Apache, Redis, PostgreSQL, ..., in dedicated servers very easy and robust. Traget a popular and robust non-commercial distribution like Ubuntu LTE, and provide all is needed to deploy web nodes, database nodes, with backups, monitoring, and everything else trivial.
Startups can give you 5% of what they are giving now to EC2 and Heroku and you still will make a lot of money.
"I can only write my Ruby code but can't handle operations" is not the right attitude, grow up. (This is what, in a different context, a famous security researcher told me in a private mail 15 years ago, and it was the right advice)