If they seem mixed up, it's probably the fault of my too-quick writing. I don't want to run VMs on cloud services. So that leads me in the direction of building services (eg some web site facing a customer extranet) directly on cloud components.
The "why build my own", instead of using some service, is simply that it's a requirement to have absolute admin and physical control (aka "everything must be inside the glass house"). However, I also need to look into hosted "private cloud" services; That might fly in terms of the admin/physical control requirement. My most direct path seems to be to open an account with RackSpace (etc) and just start learning using their specific documentation for customers. I was just hoping to get some basic groundwork laid in my brain before punching the 'buy' button. -- Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name On Jun 7, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <[email protected]> wrote: Hmm. You seem to be mixing up two different categories of products/services there. On the one hand, there are services like EC2, in which they offer you VM's, which you can manage exactly like any other servers. You ssh into the box, they're up all the time (or up when you want them to be). You install and manage your own services - apache, mysql, etc. On the other hand, why would you want to patch and maintain all that machinery when all you want is to serve some standard webpages, serve some standard storage or database, etc? So they offer the second category of product/service, which are those *services*. Click on create a database. Click on create a DNS zone. Etc. So if you want to "build a web service, directly on the cloud tech," it sounds like you want the latter. And you should not expect to have anything deeper than super high level web interface or API access to that service. That's the point of the service. If you want deeper access to the service, you probably have to use the former. Create some VM's and manage it yourself. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
