Hi Danny,

I'd like to give you a call to discuss this devops work I have. Are you
free this afternoon? I already have stuff we could get going on.

You can also call me directly at 970-376-1920

--Jon


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jason Liebrecht <[email protected]
> wrote:

> 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? I can do it myself, but
>>>> it's not really my favorite thing to do nor my strong suit.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --Jon
>>>>
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