Running your own hardware Vs EC2 and RightScale — Part 2

by Justin Leider on September 16, 2008

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 (…)

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Nuances of EC2 and RightScale

by Justin Leider on September 5, 2008

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 (…)

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