Messing around with cloud computing
8th December 2017 at 16:00 PM
Like in the Sky?
I was tasked at work with moving some of the web infrastructure from a web hotel, with very limited access
and permissions to a virtual machine which allows us to do more things. I messed around with a few different
hosts, mainly amazon and digital ocean, and I went with Digital
Ocean after reading a bit up on it online, as they have best performance per core, as well as having
free support. If I were to break something beyond repair. then I'd be in good
hands, or hopefully I would be.
What we need to host is just a some web services, as well as a medium sized database that's need by the
web services and well as some data analysis tools.
I setup this site as a test server, so I could get familiar with the performance as well firewalls, storage
and just not having hardware access. So currently I'm running a clone of my own database, this site, and my
API's on here, I'll probably be throwing some more things on here, but as i have my dedicated server and as
many of them are quite CPU and storage intensive I highly doubt it'd be worth the cost.