Short Comings of Amazon EC2

Tag: , , — June 26, 2007 @ 4:56 am Comments 18

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 data is [...]

Setting Up Part-Time Web Cluster with Amazon’s EC2

Tag: , , — January 18, 2007 @ 5:34 am Comments 3

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 [...]