Ditto in Ian, but he knows why. I've got a project right now on EC2, mainly because they put us in their Activate plan which is a great deal for a startup.
This has definitely been a pain point. I've used EngineYard in the past and it worked pretty well. Jason On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Christensen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi John, > > I think Heroku could have been a fine choice for the app I'm working on, > but I inherited it from someone else. It is an app that already has > customers and a 4 machine deployment on ec2. Honestly when I took on the > project, I overlooked the whole existing devops side of it because I > thought the company already had that part in hand and just needed some new > features. We live and learn. But rather than telling the client "I don't do > that stuff" I want to help them out. > > And the service I'm looking for isn't just answering phones at 3 am but > actually having expertise in dev ops. Knowing how to measure and monitor > machine usage, knowing how to spin up new instances if needed, > understanding the deployment architecture (aka these machines are queue > processing machines and these ones are web hosting, app serving machines > etc), being able to dig into the current architecture and tell me if we > have backup and restore capabilities or whether we're exposed... > > Even if I take on dev ops myself -- ec2 or heroku or otherwise, if I'm not > super careful to schedule time around it for monitoring and updates, I can > find myself having surprise days where whether I like it or not, an old > client forces me to give them all my attention for an entire day or more. > > If I partner with a person or company that really focuses on this end of > the business, then that frees me up to focus on development and allows me > to handle more clients. > > Thanks for the question, > --Jon > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:25 AM, John Lynch <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ian/Jon, just curious why Heroku or other PaaS type services do not work >> for you? >> >> - john >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:18 PM, 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? 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