Growth

I have several services, apps and experiments around AWS, Azure, Google so I decided to consolidate few things in one server
The main issue to me is Azure/cloud platforms performance, Azure and Microsoft are great, “everything works fine on my local machine” but as I’m cheap or wise I run it on a lower/cheaper tier, memory is almost 70%, CPU no problem, but the problem is always the first call takes few seconds to apparently warm-up/wake-up from hibernation
Subsequent calls work more or less OK
Database access is similar or worse, so the effect multiplies
I’m not the only kid on the block and I don’t like it
I know things can scale up in theory, but I’ve been there done that so if you have spent some time doing the same you may agree that scaling up takes time too. Eventually a large system will need to stay scaled up or to allocate some time just to scale up
– just for reference in case you haven’t faced it: a large database scale up may take hours (from a lower/cheaper tier to a premium tier)
So well, it works for certain scenarios but not for what I need now so I decided to launch my own set of servers
Linux and Docker
Instead of paying a cheap VPS and cheap tiers here and there I’m using that amount plus some extra and so far it seems the server can run way more than the total of that!
So why are we using cloud these days?

Side rant/note is why is so expensive to do run anything in New Zealand?
I mean things like hosting, email services, even domains are up to 4 times what a typical service may cost in the US!
I really would love to support local business, but even with GST out, is way more expensive and it seems like a normal thing to charge you premium when services are a super basic thing
Would be tempted to be a reseller, but is not the type of things I like so just leaving the idea here

Photo below is from yesterday, setting up a local server
I had to redo that anyway so today KRYPTON, my baby/local/development server, is using RAID 10, linux and docker – will share how to setup that later on
Feeling #growth

— Update
And while I was writing this I noticed the following IP’s trying to get access to that empty server, seriously?

112.45.122.9 China, 1
116.105.195.243 Vietnam, 63
222.186.15.10 China, 2
222.186.15.115 China, 4
222.186.15.158 China, 1
222.186.15.62 China, 2
222.186.175.23 China, 2
222.186.180.130 China, 1
222.186.180.142 China, 5
222.186.190.14 China, 2
222.186.30.112 China, 4
222.186.30.167 China, 4
222.186.30.218 China, 2
222.186.30.35 China, 2
222.186.30.57 China, 1
222.186.30.59 China, 71
222.186.30.76 China, 4
222.186.31.166 China, 4
222.186.42.136 China, 3
222.186.42.155 China, 3
222.186.42.7 China, 2
222.186.52.39 China, 1
27.71.122.77 Vietnam, 1
27.78.14.83 Vietnam, 37