Archives for August, 2008
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I wrote just yesterday about running your own hardware vs. using EC2 and RightScale and one of the major issues I found with EC2 was the lack of a persistent storage medium. Well, I knew the folks over at Amazon were hard at work on a new service that would allow persistent storage and turns out I received this email ...more»
A couple weeks ago I began working with EC2 and RightScale in preparation of our big IT infrastructure change over. Ill start by giving a brief overview of our hardware infrastructure. Currently we're running the CitySquares' website on our own hardware in a Somerville co-location not too far from our headquarters in Boston's trendy South End neighborhood.
From the very beginning ...more»
Well its been a few weeks since my last posting here and there is certainly a good reason for that. Every once in a while I just need to completely unplug from technology. So it only made sense for me to go away on vacation to the middle of no where up in Maine's great north woods for a couple ...more»
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