I remember getting paged at 3:00 AM three years ago because a client’s “unlimited” cloud instance had ballooned in cost, while another client’s dedicated server sat idling, wasting money on unused RAM. It’s the same cycle I see every week: …
I remember sitting in my old office at 3:00 AM, staring at a terminal window while a client’s site throttled to death because some other “neighbor” on their shared hosting plan decided to run a massive, unoptimized database query. It’s …
I still have a coffee stain on my notebook from the night a client’s site went dark because they tried to scale using “magic” cloud solutions instead of just getting a proper slice of hardware. Most marketing gurus will try …
I still remember the 3:00 AM page from my old hosting client—the one that made me realize why I keep a notebook of every outage I’ve ever faced. He had a growing e-commerce site, but he was still stuck on …
I still remember being woken up at 3:00 AM by a frantic client whose site had gone dark because they’d been sold a “cloud-based enterprise solution” that was really just a glorified, overloaded shared server. It’s the same story every …