[ale] Difficulty of philosophy changes

[Ed Cashin]

I enjoyed using Google Compute Engine (GCE) to manage a team of VMs and
then simply stop doing that.

I attended a talk about how Google Cloud services work, and I was really
disappointed when the talk was about the customer experience and not about
how Google makes stuff work.  But anyway, I got some free credits for using
GCE.  That was enough to make me use it.

But after the experience, I think that the rates are low enough and my
experience positive enough that I'd consider it for other stuff.



On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been working on changing my philosophy for a while now, and it's
> rough. Moving from "must hand do everything" to learning Puppet. Accepting
> that a perfectly tuned platform tomorrow is less useful than a functional
> one today.
>
> My next hurdle is moving personal development platforms off my personal
> hardware. It's been nice to have stuff running on my own laptop but at the
> same time the hardware is old, the OS is old (but duplicates work OS), and
> I'm getting old. I don't want to have to rebuild everything when the disk
> takes a dive.
>
> Yeah, I have backups. But everything slows to a crawl when I have to
> restore to get everything done, and then to find the one bit I forgot to
> backup.
>
> Any good recommendations for small instance cloud providers? I know AWS
> and Rackspace but have not paid attention to others yet. My goal is to spin
> up servers, learn Puppet and stuff, and spin them down. Only paying for
> uptime. RAM and disk needs are pretty minimal. However, even an AWS micro
> instance is ~$60/month if you forget that you have it and forget that it's
> on...
>
> So, I could use a place to play that's not on my old hardware. Thoughts?
>
> Leam
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