For me it's on spot, I don't like Amzn, goog, msft blackbox. This is a decent HA system for 90% startup adding just backup will make it perfect. It's better then ELB/EC2/Lambda/S3 as it uses openstack api under your own control. I am happy customer of hetzner for 4 years which is better given personal data privacy better in Germany then in USA(initially that was the primary reason of choosing them, to get away from usa based data center after Snowden).
I just don't see how it's any different than what they had yesterday. You can buy two cheap non-server-hardware servers and put openstack or coreos on them and administer it yourself.
All they did here was pre-install openstack, but leave you to keep it updated. If you can't install it yourself, good luck upgrading it when a security release comes out.
I mentioned ELB/EC2/Lambda/S3 equivalents for 2 reasons. First, AWS is clearly the market share leader, so having a similar pattern might get more buyers. Second, it's a bit easier pattern for apps that aren't cloud aware. But, they could just offer hosted K8S with some add-on ingress controllers.
I also don't get what this offers over renting these machines individually. It can't really be some preinstalled software with no support whatsoever as installing usually is the easy part.
Installing is easy, yes, but installing right can be tricky for many folks. There's a ton of conflicting info on best practices. Not detracting from your point, I agree it doesn't make sense, just saying installing right can be hard too.
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For me it's on spot, I don't like Amzn, goog, msft blackbox. This is a decent HA system for 90% startup adding just backup will make it perfect. It's better then ELB/EC2/Lambda/S3 as it uses openstack api under your own control. I am happy customer of hetzner for 4 years which is better given personal data privacy better in Germany then in USA(initially that was the primary reason of choosing them, to get away from usa based data center after Snowden).
I just don't see how it's any different than what they had yesterday. You can buy two cheap non-server-hardware servers and put openstack or coreos on them and administer it yourself.
All they did here was pre-install openstack, but leave you to keep it updated. If you can't install it yourself, good luck upgrading it when a security release comes out.
I mentioned ELB/EC2/Lambda/S3 equivalents for 2 reasons. First, AWS is clearly the market share leader, so having a similar pattern might get more buyers. Second, it's a bit easier pattern for apps that aren't cloud aware. But, they could just offer hosted K8S with some add-on ingress controllers.
I also don't get what this offers over renting these machines individually. It can't really be some preinstalled software with no support whatsoever as installing usually is the easy part.
Installing is easy, yes, but installing right can be tricky for many folks. There's a ton of conflicting info on best practices. Not detracting from your point, I agree it doesn't make sense, just saying installing right can be hard too.