A different opinion: Who wants to worry about OS/database patches/upgrades, optimized database configuration, security, and then be responsible for monitoring this environment as well?? There's no way you're going to do a better job at these tasks than a team of professionals focused 24x7 on these specific concerns ... all from a best practice perspective. Your value-add is your application and customer support - not haphazardly configuring and maintaining infrastructure in your spare(?) time.
----- Original message ----- From: Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Amazon Web Services/Azure/Google Cloud Computing Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:39:19 -0500
It is not as simple as hosting your db in a rack that someone else maintains for you.
There is a fee for bits going in and coming out so it gets costly depending on the data you have and what you might be doing.
You might find that getting a rackspace virtual server or a GoDaddy site may be better for you compared to AWS. As an Amazon investor I want more people to get into AWS but in your case, it is probably a bad fit.