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Archives for September, 2008

Running your own hardware Vs EC2 and RightScale — Part 2

16
Sep
 posted by Justin Leider                filed under Web Architecture, Web Technology
This week I've been reminded of a very important lesson... No matter how abstracted you are from your hardware, you still inherently rely on its smooth and consistent operation. This past week CitySquares' NFS server went down for the count and was completely unresponsive to any type of communication. In fact, the EC2 instance was so FUBAR we couldn't even terminate ...more»
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Nuances of EC2 and RightScale

5
Sep
 posted by Justin Leider                filed under Web Technology
So here it is, about two weeks have passed since CitySquares officially migrated its server infrastructure over to EC2 and RightScale. All in all, everything went relatively well. There were a few hiccups on the cut over day that left users with some error pages. Most of these issues were related to the DNS changeover and a little confusion over ...more»
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