On 20/01/2009, at 5:24 PM, Mike Nicholls wrote: > As a start up I believe its a false economy to run your own servers > with the Cloud Computing Options available...
Speaking of false economies, I think the same can be applied to "cloud computing" solutions like EC2. Remember we're talking about web application hosting, not a process intensive application that needs to scale in and out over time. I've got quite a bit of experience with using Amazon's services for doing media transcoding where you need to scale "workers" automatically on demand, and when it comes to running a stable 24x7 web server for a web application, EC2 is the last place I'd be putting it. Not to mention the dollar value, which is going to be around 70 - 80USD per month for a single small EC2 instance size + a little bit of traffic and disk usage. Cloud-computing solutions like EC2 do not offer push-button style scalability for web applications (in fact, nothing does). You're doing something seriously wrong if you cannot host your application in a regular $20/month VPS environment such as Slicehost, and upgrade when appropriate (as per the Getting Things Done link posted earlier by Chris Miles). Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
