Plesk Official Podcast
The Increasing Importance of Hyperscalers with Darian Wilkin
Episode Summary
Just 10 years ago, the common way to manage your infrastructure for many enterprises and large organizations was to do it themselves – something referred to as “on prem,” for on premises. As you can imagine, there are a lot of headaches that come along with managing your infrastructure this way. You need to have someone on call all the time incase something goes wrong. If a piece of hardware breaks, you either need to keep backups on hand or order them and hope they come quickly. And you may be at the mercy of certain events, like the iOS update from 2013 that took down college networks across the country. Luckily in 2022, there’s a better way: hyperscalers.
Episode Notes
Key Takeaways
- Hyperscalers are cloud-based infrastructure that can easily and quickly scale-up in response to heavy traffic.
- Digital Ocean offers infrastructure as a service, meaning that SMBs don’t need to keep and maintain their own servers, or understand hyperscalers at all.
- When we talk about scaling up, we’re talking about computability. The example used in the episode is if a group of students on a college campus all decide to start mining Bitcoin. A hyperscaler can respond to that much more quickly than staff can.
- For devs and sysadmins, the better your tools, the more time you have to focus on what you need to focus on.
- Management consoles like Plesk fit in really well with hyperscalers. They are a tools that sits on top so you don’t need to understand Linux commands to do basic things (like install WordPress!)
- Where big providers focus on feature expansion to appease their huge enterprise customers, Digital Ocean takes a different approach: simplicity.
- SMBs are also concerned with scaling rapidly, but may not have the staff or resources to fully understand a solution from the big providers. Digital Ocean’s focus on simplicity means they don’t have to.
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