![]() ![]() I originally wrote about the scooter computers we added to our Discourse infrastructure in 2016, plus my own colocation experiment that ran concurrently. I'm still curious why there isn't more of a cottage industry for colocating mini PCs. We've also experimented with colocating mini-pcs in various hosting roles. Given the prevalence and maturity of cloud providers, it's even a little controversial these days to colocate actual servers. I suppose it's understandable that Mac users would be on the cutting edge here since Apple barely makes server hardware, whereas the PC world has always been the literal de-facto standard for server hardware. Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds? Reliable connectivity, plus a nice low monthly price for extremely fast hardware? If this sounds crazy, it shouldn't – Mac users have been doing this for years now. It is, after all, someone else's computer that you pay for the privilege of renting.īut wait … what if you could put your own computer "in the cloud"? But it's still the cloud, and that means it isn't exactly cheap. Not really a surprise, since the price of hardware trends to zero over time. I predicted early on that the cost of renting a suitable VPS would drop to $5 per month, and courtesy of Digital Ocean that indeed happened in January 2018. We were OK with that, because we were building in Ruby for the next decade of the Internet. I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer ![]()
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