> Guess that move to Amazon EC2 wasn't such a good idea. First reddit, > now netflix. > http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/four-reasons-we-choose-amazons-cloud-as.html
FWIW, at $DAYJOB we haven't been able to run out a pool of a couple of dozen EC2 instances for more than two weeks (since last June) without at least one of them going down. The same number of hardware servers we ran ourselves in Peer1 ran for a couple of years with no unplanned outages. Amortized over five years, Peer1 colo + hardware is also cheaper than the equivalent EC2 cost. Hey everyone! Join the cloud, and stand in the pissing rain. --lyndon
