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Re: The Sun never sets

Jonathan Boutelle — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:37:01 -0000

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).

Re: The Sun never sets

davidcrow — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:02:10 -0000

We were looking at the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Elastic Compute Cloud</a> yesterday and tried to sign up for the beta program, but I'm too damn slow. The price/performance looks fantastic. And I figure <a href="http://www.allthingsdistrib..." target="_blank">Werner Vogels</a> 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.

Re: The Sun never sets

Brent Ashley — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:15:43 -0000

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.

Re: The Sun never sets

Brent Ashley — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:09:58 -0000

Practically infinite scalability on demand could be in your future & see what Jonathan Boutelle has to say about Amazon's new <a href="http://www.jonathanboutelle..." target="_blank">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud</a>. 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.