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I've been asked this and similar questions quite a bit lately. But before I delve into the answer to this I want to lay the foundation and ask you a question. This one question should play a large part in your final assessment to go with EC2 or not. The question you should ask yourself is:
How quickly do you actually ...more»
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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.
There are quite ...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»
