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>Easier than AWS, that's for sure

You finding it hard != is hard

>Getting HA to actually work in AWS is a nightmare of proprietary configuration and obscure documentation

Strange. I have no problem with it. Most of my peers don't either. There is waaay worse documentation than AWS.

>Hardware-in-a-DC HA has been around approximately forever, and there is far more documentation available on the hundreds of ways to get it working rock-solid... all without vendor lock-in.

If you could point me to all this documentation you speak of that guarantees a "rock-solid" co-lo experience...

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Actually it is hard. Most of your peers and yourself may be familiar with the quirks, but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. AWS's docs are terrible. Others being worse does't change that fact.

As for rock solid colo docs- there is this thing called Google. And in fact you barely need that. It's real easy to set up.

>Actually it is hard. Most of your peers and yourself may be familiar with the quirks, but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. AWS's docs are terrible. Others being worse does't change that fact.

I think you've confused what "facts" are...

Doesn't matter. I guess some people are just destined to remain rack 'n stack sysadmins. Fine, more money and less competition for jobs then.

>As for rock solid colo docs- there is this thing called Google. And in fact you barely need that. It's real easy to set up.

I think you misunderstood my point. I know there are a thousand-and-one guides for setting up Nagios and Postfix and sticking HAProxy in front of it, but my point was that no amount of documentation can abstract away the actual pain points of dealing with co-los, including their owners, staff, and all the fun little problems that crop up with dealing with them.

For when it actually matters beyond a dollar value, I trust AWS engineers a lot more than I do HPE/Equinix etc...

Seems you've gone a bit personal here.

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