One of my larger clients is hosting with Rails Machine, out in Atlanta. They do a great job with ops, and I haven't had to answer a 3am call for years.
-Marc On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Ian Young <[email protected]> wrote: > This is something I often wish for as well, so if anyone passes Jon > recommendations, please send them to me or the whole list as well! > > As a solo freelancer, I want to be able to offer some clients an > end-to-end "I'll take care of it" sort of service, but ops is a crucial > piece of that, and I will not volunteer to answer the phone at 3am because > a network switch went down. I'd love to bundle my services with someone > else who would have an initial contract to provision infrastructure, write > Chef recipes, and get familiar with the project, plus a retainer for > security updates and maintenance, plus an "emergency rate" for outages. > > Is anyone doing this sort of thing at a medium-small scale? This seems > like a great business plan for a small devops consultancy. > > Ian > > > On Wed, May 14, 2014, at 08:55 AM, Jonathan Christensen wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've got a client that needs some help with operational support. Basically > monitoring of uptime, occasionally restarting services on EC2 instances, > troubleshooting downtime, being able to know how to properly size and grow > a deployment to meet traffic needs, being available not just during > business hours... all the stuff that comes with operations. > > Do you guys know anyone who is independent that does this and enjoys it or > a company with reasonable rates and good skills? I can do it myself, but > it's not really my favorite thing to do nor my strong suit. > > Cheers, > --Jon > > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
