Maybe your recurring hosting will be further reduced George :) http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/effective-april-2014/ On 24/03/2014 6:58 am, "George Christman" <gchrist...@cardaddy.com> wrote:
> Your absolutely correct, you can deff do better price wise with a VPS, but > then again I don't believe you will get all the features and conveniences > you get with aws for the same price. Being I'm by myself, the last thing I > have time to deal with is hosting / server issues. If I was with aws > before, I probably wouldn't have ever lost my old application grr. > > Included in that 59 dollars, I'm getting a load balancer, autoscaling, auto > maintained servers, image server with backups which I believe is on a cdn > network, redundant data centers (just hope we don't have another netflix > issue lol), database server with auto backups, email relays, etc. So tons > of great perks that helps to reduce thousands of dollars in labor / > hardware. > > Another perk is the ability to whip up an entire environment in under > 15mins. Perhaps I find it cheap do to the fact I use to own all my own > hardware in a colo which cost me thousands of dollars plus labor. Rack > space alone was 1500/mo before hardware and labor, so aws to me seems like > a slam dunk. I'll keep you posted as traffic continues to increase and the > free tier goes away lol. > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:59 AM, George Christman > <gchrist...@cardaddy.com>wrote: > > > I'd like to first say thanks to all who have contributed to the on going > > evolution of Tapestry and it's support. I'm a long time user of Tapestry > > starting with version 3 in 2005 and I must say leaps and bounds have been > > made since then. I'd also like to say thanks to all who have continued to > > answer my never ending array of questions ;-) Thanks guys! It has been a > > pleasure working with you all. > > > > In 2008 we took a risk and decided to move forward with t5 beta over > > spring with the development of our new app. We experienced some short > lived > > glorious times as we successfully processed hundreds of thousands of > users > > and cars, however do to our nations elected official and his cash for > > clunkers program, it destroyed our market place forcing me to have to > > change our brand to CarDaddy.com. > > > > With the lack of success with the new brand I eventually had to move on > to > > other opportunities. I ended up taking a job with our state government > and > > some contract work for a hotel wireless company, however along with my > > move, I decided to bring along my dear friend Tapestry5. Tapestry5 has > > ended up becoming an active platform within my organizations which we are > > now actively focused on building 5.4 apps. :) > > > > While being focused with my other work, my personal app which was still > > being ran on T5.1 was lacking support and ended up getting hacked > (apache) > > three weeks ago by the Chinese bringing down my servers. This forced me > to > > have to whip up a new application over the past three weeks by myself in > > 5.4 and yup, that wasn't a typo, only three weeks and that includes > mobile > > too, okay maybe they were 3 very long weeks, but I still managed to > pulled > > it off and I don't think I could have without the help of T5.4, jquery, > > bootstrap etc :) Well I'd like to share my new app with the community > while > > once again pushing out a beta app into production :) I realize there is a > > lot of room for improvement, so feel free to suggest away. Growth seems > to > > be on the rise as traffic / inventory continue to increase daily and I > > don't have a doubt in my mind that Tapestry won't be up for the job. > > > > Once again, thank you guys for all you have done. > > > > New 5.4-beta3 site > > www.cardaddy.com > > > > > > Cheers, > > George > > > > -- > > George Christman > > www.CarDaddy.com > > P.O. Box 735 > > Johnstown, New York > > > > > > > -- > George Christman > www.CarDaddy.com > P.O. Box 735 > Johnstown, New York >
