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Just as with any platform you choose, EC2 has its own limitations as well. These limitations are often different and harder to overcome than what you might find while running your own hardware. Without the proper planning and development, these limitations can wind up being extremely detrimental to the well being and scalability of your website or service.
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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»
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»
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»
