They became known for energetic live concerts. They were integrated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, their 1st year of eligibility. Baseing on to the New York Times, The Who have sold 100 million discs….

As far as my experience goes with EC2, the latency is already somewhat high. If you are concerned with the latency induced via travel across the ocean then it might make sense to look at managed hosting. Its not quite as flexible as cloud computing but still somewhat abstracts you away from the hardware.

The great thing about EC2 is it doesnt cost a lot to play around with it for a bit. I suggest you sign up for an account and see for yourself if the latency is acceptable.

- Justin

Great post. I wanted to let you know that I referenced your post in a Cloud Computing post on my Technical Manager blog. Please continue to write about your EC2 experiences.

Thanks – Kevin Mullins

Now there’s an understatement!

For growing web operations, the cost of finding and acquiring your own systems, storage, and network engineers alone tips the scale in favor of a cloud style solution. Not that you still won’t need these types of engineers, but now you can focus them on things that add value to your business.

Best of all, your story is about an actual decision and the financial freedom it gives you moving forward. Most every technical challenge can be met if only you have the money to buy the time to make it right.

From that standpoint EC2 coupled with the forthcoming Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for persistence is a radical improvement over shelling out the big bucks.

Thanks.

Tim Ramsey