There's a lot in here, and many of the findings will be different than one would expect from the title.
If you don't have much time, skip to the "Discussion" section on pages 16 and 17.
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If you don't have much time, skip to the "Discussion" section on pages 16 and 17.
Step 1: An if/else-heavy script that will take in a few parameters (for us it's city, a server type, and a numeral for naming) and build a clean server with all of the needed keys populated.
Step 2: A "yum install"-heavy script passed into the clean server, that builds everything needed from scratch, sending status emails throughout the build process.
We currently have ~50 servers in 8 cities, across Linode, Digital Ocean, and Vultr. It took me two weeks to craft a ~400 line script that abstracted the server creation APIs for each. Once spun up, they're each bootstrapped with a script that builds each server from scratch identically regardless of the provider (with a couple one-offs for Vultr), because they're all running the same distro.
A whole data center can go down, and there's no reason for me to get out of bed.
While Yes, housing costs have moved up, others have remained flat (so relatively compared to other cities, have moved down).
As silly as it sounds, my favorite metric is "Cost of Drinking". Find the fancy cocktail bars in any city's downtown. In Austin, nothing on the menu is above $12 at Midnight Cowboy or The Garage. Now compare that to the other cities on this list.
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