So Sun keeps on trying to sell me boxes. I don’t need OpenSolaris, I need solutions! What is the difference? OpenSolaris requires someone who knows how to configure it, manage it, secure it, and adjust it for performance. But newsflash here! I am not a system admin. I am not a dba. And wait for it… I don’t want to be. I am a java developer and all I want for Christmas is a cheap ‘hobbyist’ hosting solution. Such a system will be perfectly adequate until Amplafi has the traffic to justify a more ‘serious’ solution.
Today I can get:
- PHP
- (some) webserver to deliver the content
- MySQL
- Zero DBA experience required.
- Zero SysAdmin Knowledge needed(you don’t get a commandline anyhow)
- A just-upload-and-run-experience
- ~$10/month
Why can’t Sun deliver the same thing only running Java 1.6?
Why is that a hosted java application costs a minimum of $80/month? This is so wrong.