Practically infinite scalability on demand could be in your future & see what Jonathan Boutelle has to say about Amazon's new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The comments add additional insight too.
I've been using multiple virtual machines and round-robin DNS for some time now and for the right apps it works a treat.
Brent Ashley
· 3 years ago
oops – my more relevant point is that with such virtual servers you generally have control and access to their console or config settings from afar even if you’ve gone and bogosified the network interface.
David Crow
· 3 years ago
We were looking at the Elastic Compute Cloud yesterday and tried to sign up for the beta program, but I'm too damn slow. The price/performance looks fantastic. And I figure Werner Vogels and his team are capable of architecting high availability web servers.
That said, the Sun box really is a piece of art. It works beautifully, it should, it's more expensive than the commodity hardware we're running now, but it's way more robust.
Jonathan Boutelle
· 3 years ago
Those servers look bad-ass, but definitely more expensive than a boot-strapped startup can afford!
I'll stick with commodity servers, and keep sticking as much of my compute hosting as I can onto Amazon (the compute cloud thing is probably a year off from being the kind of thing you can bet a business on, but I can testify that S3 is ready for action now).
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Practically infinite scalability on demand could be in your future & see what Jonathan Boutelle has to say about Amazon's new
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The comments add additional insight too.
I've been using multiple virtual machines and round-robin DNS for some time now and for the right apps it works a treat.
oops – my more relevant point is that with such virtual servers you generally have control and access to their console or config settings from afar even if you’ve gone and bogosified the network interface.
We were looking at the Elastic Compute Cloud yesterday and tried to sign up for the beta program, but I'm too damn slow. The price/performance looks fantastic. And I figure Werner Vogels and his team are capable of architecting high availability web servers.
That said, the Sun box really is a piece of art. It works beautifully, it should, it's more expensive than the commodity hardware we're running now, but it's way more robust.
Those servers look bad-ass, but definitely more expensive than a boot-strapped startup can afford!
I'll stick with commodity servers, and keep sticking as much of my compute hosting as I can onto Amazon (the compute cloud thing is probably a year off from being the kind of thing you can bet a business on, but I can testify that S3 is ready for action now).