2Latest 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 currently under development so that you can better plan for how that functionality might integrate with your applications. [...]
Short 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 IP). One has to use dynamic DNS services for a given domain. No block storage persistence. When the instance is gone, the [...]
Amazon 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 1st June onwards — a per request cost and bandwidth cost. It makes sense because not every gigabyte fetched costs the same [...]
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 copes with regular load. Do you go out to buy 2 more dedicated servers just for that 12 hours [...]
Amazon Web Services is Expensive
Amazon Web Services is expensive, if you compare them with the overselling dedicated server market.
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 server using rsnapshot, running at 4am every morning. So far so good, and I loves the flexibility of rsnapshot. I guess [...]
Amazon Announced Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
1I 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 “wow” when Aussie HQ introduced their million-dollar real time provisioning dedicated server this month (see all the buzz [...]