IIS on prem to hosted migration
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We had this happen recently. Company wanted to hire Java people. Java was the one development name that the owners of the company knew. They couldn't identify Java if their lives depended on it, they couldn't write it, they weren't sure what it did, but they knew the name and knew that that was what they had to have. To make matters worse, the owners had Comp Sci degrees, so were extremely prideful about their technical expertise, even though they could not read code (yes, universities give out CS degrees to people who aren't even clear what programming is.)
So they just hired random, cheap "Java people". Of course, no part of the project needed any Java at all, it made no sense. Likewise they hired "Oracle people" to handle the data aspects, even though no data support was needed and no relational data existed. They knew names, they hired based on those names, nothing more.
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@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
The cost of hosted Windows is extremely high compared to anything else. Generally around double, just for apples to apples, and often quadruple once you account for the additional resources often needed to accommodate Windows systems. In some cases, the licensing cost of Windows alone can exceed the cost of the VPS hosting.
I've been doing some web searching and have found very few helpful things about the migration. Just lots of migration tools for convenience, but nothing that is manual so I can actually understand what is needed should I not have a convenient tool. More importantly, to fully understand how the process works.
Welcome to Windows, IIS and .NET. All three are hard and complicated for reasons no one knows. Having worked with many alternatives to all three, it is always shocking that any of them can be has complicated as they are. There is a reason that we warn so heavily against companies writing in house code using any of these, even when it isn't strictly locking them into the tech, it effectively does so. Add to this the tendency to disastrously choose MS SQL Server as a datastore and the problems just skyrocket.
I've wondered why some companies choose to limit themselves right off the bat.
The sunk cost fallacy hits from day one, and emotions drive everything.
That's scary to think about.
This is the 98% case for the SMB market. Nearly all businesses fall prey to this emotional problem.
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@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
The cost of hosted Windows is extremely high compared to anything else. Generally around double, just for apples to apples, and often quadruple once you account for the additional resources often needed to accommodate Windows systems. In some cases, the licensing cost of Windows alone can exceed the cost of the VPS hosting.
I've been doing some web searching and have found very few helpful things about the migration. Just lots of migration tools for convenience, but nothing that is manual so I can actually understand what is needed should I not have a convenient tool. More importantly, to fully understand how the process works.
Welcome to Windows, IIS and .NET. All three are hard and complicated for reasons no one knows. Having worked with many alternatives to all three, it is always shocking that any of them can be has complicated as they are. There is a reason that we warn so heavily against companies writing in house code using any of these, even when it isn't strictly locking them into the tech, it effectively does so. Add to this the tendency to disastrously choose MS SQL Server as a datastore and the problems just skyrocket.
If they have a mashup of Windows, IIS, and .NET ... I'm guessing there is no easy way to do this. At least not in the sense of simply copying folders out to a VPS instance...
It's not that easy even if you are sticking to Windows. "Not easy" is part of the design. But figuring out how to deploy this is critical regardless of your end needs here. If this system gets old and can't be supported, what's the support game plan if no one knows how to support this software?
Also, we should ask... why is a business relying on software that they can't support? What happens if the code breaks or something?
If they are indeed using a mashup of Windows, IIS, .NET, and MS SQL, the only answer I have is vendor support. If that is not there, the knee jerk reaction is 'not good'.
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@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
We had this happen recently. Company wanted to hire Java people. Java was the one development name that the owners of the company knew. They couldn't identify Java if their lives depended on it, they couldn't write it, they weren't sure what it did, but they knew the name and knew that that was what they had to have. To make matters worse, the owners had Comp Sci degrees, so were extremely prideful about their technical expertise, even though they could not read code (yes, universities give out CS degrees to people who aren't even clear what programming is.)
So they just hired random, cheap "Java people". Of course, no part of the project needed any Java at all, it made no sense. Likewise they hired "Oracle people" to handle the data aspects, even though no data support was needed and no relational data existed. They knew names, they hired based on those names, nothing more.
Yikes... that is more emotional than I've worked with. You can have all the crazies.
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@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
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@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
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@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
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@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Ah, I didn't know it was a newer version. I thought it was just different. Know that I do not know a lot about .NET/ASP.NET/.NET Core. I haven't had a need to support many web services, so learning the exact underlying differences is something I have on my continuing list of things to master.
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@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
The cost of hosted Windows is extremely high compared to anything else. Generally around double, just for apples to apples, and often quadruple once you account for the additional resources often needed to accommodate Windows systems. In some cases, the licensing cost of Windows alone can exceed the cost of the VPS hosting.
I've been doing some web searching and have found very few helpful things about the migration. Just lots of migration tools for convenience, but nothing that is manual so I can actually understand what is needed should I not have a convenient tool. More importantly, to fully understand how the process works.
Welcome to Windows, IIS and .NET. All three are hard and complicated for reasons no one knows. Having worked with many alternatives to all three, it is always shocking that any of them can be has complicated as they are. There is a reason that we warn so heavily against companies writing in house code using any of these, even when it isn't strictly locking them into the tech, it effectively does so. Add to this the tendency to disastrously choose MS SQL Server as a datastore and the problems just skyrocket.
If they have a mashup of Windows, IIS, and .NET ... I'm guessing there is no easy way to do this. At least not in the sense of simply copying folders out to a VPS instance...
It's not that easy even if you are sticking to Windows. "Not easy" is part of the design. But figuring out how to deploy this is critical regardless of your end needs here. If this system gets old and can't be supported, what's the support game plan if no one knows how to support this software?
Also, we should ask... why is a business relying on software that they can't support? What happens if the code breaks or something?
If they are indeed using a mashup of Windows, IIS, .NET, and MS SQL, the only answer I have is vendor support. If that is not there, the knee jerk reaction is 'not good'.
If there is a vendor, they should be able to help you with the migration.
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@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Pretty much if software is written in .NET, it has also been abandoned. .NET is the platform for abandoning software.
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@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Ah, I didn't know it was a newer version. I thought it was just different. Know that I do not know a lot about .NET/ASP.NET/.NET Core. I haven't had a need to support many web services, so learning the exact underlying differences is something I have on my continuing list of things to master.
It's not just a new framework version, it's Microsoft's take on cross platform without compromises.
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@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Pretty much if software is written in .NET, it has also been abandoned. .NET is the platform for abandoning software.
I've seen so many abandoned Python / Perl / Ruby / Java / Whatever projects... it's not just a matter of the language or the ecosystem.
But I do not want to de-rail this thread
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@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Ah, I didn't know it was a newer version. I thought it was just different. Know that I do not know a lot about .NET/ASP.NET/.NET Core. I haven't had a need to support many web services, so learning the exact underlying differences is something I have on my continuing list of things to master.
It's not just a new framework version, it's Microsoft's take on cross platform without compromises.
I just logged in and checked, that app uses ASP.NET
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@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Ah, I didn't know it was a newer version. I thought it was just different. Know that I do not know a lot about .NET/ASP.NET/.NET Core. I haven't had a need to support many web services, so learning the exact underlying differences is something I have on my continuing list of things to master.
It's not just a new framework version, it's Microsoft's take on cross platform without compromises.
I just logged in and checked, that app uses ASP.NET
There it goes, your chance of a docker container
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@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Ah, I didn't know it was a newer version. I thought it was just different. Know that I do not know a lot about .NET/ASP.NET/.NET Core. I haven't had a need to support many web services, so learning the exact underlying differences is something I have on my continuing list of things to master.
It's not just a new framework version, it's Microsoft's take on cross platform without compromises.
I just logged in and checked, that app uses ASP.NET
There it goes, your chance of a docker container
Sorry.The goal here, is to make this as difficult as possible. Quit trying to make things easy!
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@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@scottalanmiller said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Pretty much if software is written in .NET, it has also been abandoned. .NET is the platform for abandoning software.
I've seen so many abandoned Python / Perl / Ruby / Java / Whatever projects... it's not just a matter of the language or the ecosystem.
But I do not want to de-rail this thread
Yes, but I also see those that aren't abandoned all of the time. But .NET... other than SC, find me anything that isn't abandoned.
Especially when we are talking internal bespoke software. It's almost as if .NET was designed for code to be abandoned.
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@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@thwr said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
@bbigford said in IIS on prem to hosted migration:
Re: How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS
I'd honestly have to gather more info before I say one way or another. Slowing down and thinking about it, I believe this app only exists in inetput and is asp.net... I'd have to jump into their server and take a look.
Is it by any chance .NET Core? Runs great as Docker on Linux, for example.
I'm not sure off the top of my head to be honest. I would guess no, just based on some characteristics of the client. But I will be gathering more details.
Damn. How old is the application? .NET Core is relatively new (approx. 2 years or so)
Ah, I didn't know it was a newer version. I thought it was just different. Know that I do not know a lot about .NET/ASP.NET/.NET Core. I haven't had a need to support many web services, so learning the exact underlying differences is something I have on my continuing list of things to master.
It's not just a new framework version, it's Microsoft's take on cross platform without compromises.
I just logged in and checked, that app uses ASP.NET
Those are not competing things.
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.NET Core is a competitor to .NET and Mono. All three are implementations of the .NET runtime environment. All three come from Microsoft today.
