Amazon Announced Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
I am an Australian, and Australia is a tiny place. Well, the land is big, but majority of 20+ million people chose to squeeze into a few coastal cities. Web hosting is expensive here, and everyone went...
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Offsite Backup, Take 2
Jeremy Zawodny’s blog post from early last month has prompted me to look at offsite backup solutions again. Currently I am backing up all my websites, from various servers and accounts, to my home...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services is Expensive
Amazon Web Services is expensive, if you compare them with the overselling dedicated server market. Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg responded to Joyent’s point on grid, showing how big a package they can...
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Setting Up Part-Time Web Cluster with Amazon’s EC2
What do you do when you have regular traffic spike? Say, for once a month, traffic increases 3 fold for 12 hours after your company sent out the monthly news letter? Your current web server barely...
View ArticleAmazon S3 Pricing Change – Good or Bad?
Just received an email from Amazon about the pricing change of Simple Storage Service. Instead of charging a flat rate of $0.20/GB uploading and downloading, “traffic cost” will be split into two from...
View ArticleShort Comings of Amazon EC2
Jason Hoffman of Joyent has written an interesting article, Why EC2 isn’t yet a platform for “normal” web applications. No IP address persistence (they all function as DHCP clients and are assigned an...
View ArticleAmazon Content Delivery Network is Coming
Latest offering from Amazon Web Services? A Content Delivery Network! Got this from email a few minutes ago: Many of you have asked us to let you know ahead of time about features and services that are...
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