Posts Tagged “Site Architecture”

Is Amazon’s EC2 right for you?

by Justin Leider on January 26, 2009

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 (…)

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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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Running your own hardware Vs. EC2 and RightScale

by Justin Leider on August 20, 2008

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 (…)

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