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Tag archives for Site Architecture

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»
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»
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»
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