Sure, happy to follow up with a detailed comparison.
TL;DR: Octopus Deploy has a strong focus on CD, providing a Cloud based framework to push your software to multiple targets. Distr also supports directly and continuously deploying your software to various deployment targets, but it additionally supports the pull approach, where the customer fully self-manages their infrastructure and simply fetches the application or artifacts from Distr.
Octopus Deploy also offers deep Argo CD integration (after they acquired Codefresh). On the other hand, Distr is completely open source and can be self-hosted if desired.
If you’re interested in specific features, I’m happy to go into more detail.
This is exactly how it was for me and my family when we lived in Wisconsin. We live in Germany now. Everyone walks to school or bikes - there is community.
I used to colocate a 2U server that I purchased with a local data center. It was a great learning experience for me. Im curious why a company wouldn't colocate their own hardware? Proximity isnt an issue when you can have the datacenter perform physical tasks. Bravo to the comma team regardless. It'll be a great learning experience and make each person on their team better.
Ps... bx cable instead of conduit for electrical looks cringe.
Are there any resources on how to colocate as a hobbyist? Every colocation service makes it seem they only deal with big contract.
I'm imagining a setup that can work like this:
- I can purchase/lease from some vendor (maybe even a used dell 1U) and have it sent directly to them and they construct and install (same with ssd replacements, ram upgrade, etc.).
- They can setup remote KVM over IP access if needed.
- I never have to drive to their facility, but based in the US.
I'm willing to trade off some control and turnaround time here. The idea is to have something like a $500/month VPS but with a higher upfront cost and lower monthly cost for space, power, and bandwidth.
The main reason not to colocate is if you're somewhere with high real estate costs... E.g
Hetzner managed servers competes on price w/co-location for me because I'm in London.
I colocate in London, a single server / firewall comes to around £5k a year. I also colocate two other servers in some northern UK location in some industrial estate for £2k as my backups. I've never enjoyed the cloud and dedicated server's have their own caveats too.
Budget hosts such as Hetzner/OVH have been known to suddenly pull the plug for no reason.
My kit is old, second hand old (Cisco UCS 220 M5, 2xDell somethings) and last night I just discovered I can throw in two NVIDIA T4's and turn it in to a personal LLM.
I'm quite excited having my own colocated server with basic LLM abilities. My own hardware with my own data and my own cables. Just need my own IP's now.
> Budget hosts such as Hetzner/OVH have been known to suddenly pull the plug for no reason.
The same would apply for any number of hosts. Hetzner/OVH are cheap, but as your own numbers show the location price gap is more than sufficient to cover the costs of servers.
In fact you can colocate with Hetzner too, and you'd get a similar price gap - the lower cost of real-estate is a large part of the reason why they can be as cheap as they are.
Data centre operations is a real estate play - to the point that at least one UK data centre operator is owned by a real estate investment company.
Thanks. I hadn't seen it as such and you're right. I guess it comes down to personal preference.
Where I feel that data has become a commodity in that I can sell your username and email for a few pence, I would rather prefer to have my own hardware in my own possession and that any request of it has to go to me, nor some server provider.
I shared this article with my sister. Unfortunately I have lost faith in most people to read the full article. Within 30 seconds of sending the article she responds with "Sadly I don't know two languages! So we will focus on english together"
To me the point is to toss as much at the brain as possible. Not limit yourself or your child with monoculture.
A little empathy can go a long way. Perhaps your sister simply has different taste in reading than you do? For example, I opened the article and closed it pretty much right away because it has all the hallmarks of a clickbait nothing burger.
A lot of people worry that exposing their baby to another language will somehow impair its ability to learn theirs. This isn't true, but people worry anyway.
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The result described in this press release isn't new. We already knew that neonates are able to distinguish languages they've been exposed to from languages that they haven't been. What this study adds is "we documented an existing known result, but with some pictures of brain activity".
I wish there was a Git way of commenting even anonymously (not necessarily without auth). Then a site like this, written with Hugo, could keep all the comments and the moderation/spam could be built in with a GitHub authorization.
Well, I actually remember much of that time myself. About a year or so after that video was made I was learning to program in Fortran on the university's IBM-360 mainframe. (Learning to program was compulsory for anyone studying science, engineering and mathematics and the subject was a part of the math curriculum.)
So I was ready when the early processors, 8080/5, Z80 and 8086 arrived a few years later. In fact I was running both DR's CP/M and Tim Patterson's SCP DOS on an S-100 system around the time Microsoft bought the product and renamed it MSDOS.
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