I have been running production servers from my garage in the past few years, but this approach suffers from the following issues:
- Consumer broadband is not reliable enough – although broadband such as cable or DSL are much more reliable then before, they are no where near the 5-9s needed for production servers
- Home power source is not reliable enough – power source at home are also unreliable, power outage are frequent occurrences, and automatic backup power capability causes quite a bit of capital
- Hardware eventually also breaks down and needs maintenance
The above more or less caused me to be stressed about my servers whenever I am away for an extended period of time. It’s time to make a change and unchain myself from my garage setup, and find a different option for my servers.
The potential options are as follows:
- Shared Web Hosting
- Pro
- Cheap
- Cons
- the only standard configurations (such as LAMP) works. Since I run Racket web server, this is out of question
- Pro
- Virtual Private Servers
- Pro
- Full access of a virtual server
- Cost – Able to buy a “slice” of server if one do not need a lot of computing power
- Others manage the HW; I only focus on SW
- Con
- Cost – for an equivalent colocation slice
- Pro
- Colocation
- Pro
- Best bang for the buck – a single U is cheaper than multiple slices of VPS
- Con
- Back to manage the HW myself
- Cost – high if I only want a slice of power
- Pro
Since my goal is to unshackle from the HW for the time being, VPS appears to be the best option. I will be moving my servers online in the next few weeks.
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