Being a provider in 2023 is tough!
Not only do you have all the usual challenges of being a hosting company – everything chargebacks to network outages to customers who’ll jump ship to save 10 cents – but over the last decade you’ve had to deal with the rise of public clouds.
Can you possibly compete against Amazon, Google, or Microsoft?
Yes. And to anticipate your next question, the answer is Warren.io.
In a nutshell (see this one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big public clouds. Warren – the name comes from the animal kingdom network – provides a platform so a small provider can offer many of the same cloud features. They do this by knitting together a stack of open source technologies and providing and elegant interface. The provider pays either on a revenue share model or a flat rate resource model.
It’s really cool to see “big cloud” features continue to filter down to smaller providers’ stacks. Even if you’re not a provider, I enjoyed reading their playbook and technical pages.
If you’re a small provider looking to compete, you need to check out Warren.io!
Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.
Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.
His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.
You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.
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