Taking the Taxi – Cloud Computing Simplified
One of the basic questions you need to answer when working on a startup is where the project will live – what infrastructure will you use to serve your application and store your project data?
Until 2007, the most common solution was to buy a server (or a server cluster, depending on the size of the project) with enough capacity to handle the anticipated web traffic and data. This got the job done, but the solution created several new challenges of its own:
Budgeting for high-priced equipment and backup systems Diverting funds and manpower for server maintenance and upgrades Resolving conflicts between applications and the server hardware and operating system
Fortunately, thereâ
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