Amazon EC2 hosting, was: Dedicated hosting in the US

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

Amazon has experienced a set of performance problems recently. Their system
is overly complicated, and, except for specific usage, I would recommend
people to avoid.
Other "cloud" services exist, but still - the "cloud" is a buzzword which,
translated to simple language is "you might have performance issues, and you
have no means whatsoever of finding their source. You can guess, though".
This sums up most of the cloud utilizations I have seen so far, which is,
also, a funny way of saying "virtualization you do not maintain".

Cheers.
Ez

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Gadi Cohen <dragon at wastelands.net> wrote:

> On 12/08/2010 00:00, Maxim Veksler wrote:
> > Are you familiar with EC2  cc1.4xlarge instance type ?
> >
> > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
>
> Not really... I did have a look around there a while back, but it just
> seemed overly complicated.  I like paying a flat rate and knowing
> exactly what I get, especially since it's more than enough power for me
> for the next little while.  Also with 16 cores can I quite easily divide
> my work into nice little VMs (xen-based), which I believe (but am not
> sure) that I could migrate to the cloud at a later stage.
>
> It says bandwidth is free until November... then what?
>
> Or more importantly... assuming you are in fact a proud owner of an
> xlarge instance, please share your use case and experiences with us :)
>
> Gadi
>
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