Comments on: The Sun never sets http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets Helping companies with marketing, product strategy, UX and development.. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Boutelle http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-754 Jonathan Boutelle Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:37:01 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-754 <p>Those servers look bad-ass, but definitely more expensive than a boot-strapped startup can afford!</p> <p>I'll stick with commodity servers, and keep sticking as much of my compute hosting as I can onto Amazon (the compute cloud thing is probably a year off from being the kind of thing you can bet a business on, but I can testify that S3 is ready for action now).</p> Those servers look bad-ass, but definitely more expensive than a boot-strapped startup can afford!

I'll stick with commodity servers, and keep sticking as much of my compute hosting as I can onto Amazon (the compute cloud thing is probably a year off from being the kind of thing you can bet a business on, but I can testify that S3 is ready for action now).

]]> By: Jonathan Boutelle http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-10073 Jonathan Boutelle Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:37:00 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-10073 <p>Those servers look bad-ass, but definitely more expensive than a boot-strapped startup can afford!</p><br /> <br /> <p>I'll stick with commodity servers, and keep sticking as much of my compute hosting as I can onto Amazon (the compute cloud thing is probably a year off from being the kind of thing you can bet a business on, but I can testify that S3 is ready for action now).</p> <p>Those servers look bad-ass, but definitely more expensive than a boot-strapped startup can afford!</p><br />
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<p>I'll stick with commodity servers, and keep sticking as much of my compute hosting as I can onto Amazon (the compute cloud thing is probably a year off from being the kind of thing you can bet a business on, but I can testify that S3 is ready for action now).</p>

]]> By: David Crow http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-753 David Crow Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:02:10 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-753 <p>We were looking at the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/">Elastic Compute Cloud</a> yesterday and tried to sign up for the beta program, but I'm too damn slow. The price/performance looks fantastic. And I figure <a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/">Werner Vogels</a> and his team are capable of architecting high availability web servers.</p> <p>That said, the Sun box really is a piece of art. It works beautifully, it should, it's more expensive than the commodity hardware we're running now, but it's way more robust.</p> We were looking at the Elastic Compute Cloud yesterday and tried to sign up for the beta program, but I’m too damn slow. The price/performance looks fantastic. And I figure Werner Vogels and his team are capable of architecting high availability web servers.

That said, the Sun box really is a piece of art. It works beautifully, it should, it's more expensive than the commodity hardware we're running now, but it's way more robust.

]]> By: Brent Ashley http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-752 Brent Ashley Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:15:43 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-752 <p>oops – my more relevant point is that with such virtual servers you generally have control and access to their console or config settings from afar even if you’ve gone and bogosified the network interface.</p> oops – my more relevant point is that with such virtual servers you generally have control and access to their console or config settings from afar even if you’ve gone and bogosified the network interface.

]]> By: Brent Ashley http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-751 Brent Ashley Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:09:58 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-751 <p>Practically infinite scalability on demand could be in your future & see what Jonathan Boutelle has to say about Amazon's new <br /><a href="http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2006/08/utility_computi.html">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud</a>. The comments add additional insight too. </p> <p>I've been using multiple virtual machines and round-robin DNS for some time now and for the right apps it works a treat.</p> Practically infinite scalability on demand could be in your future & see what Jonathan Boutelle has to say about Amazon's new
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The comments add additional insight too.

I've been using multiple virtual machines and round-robin DNS for some time now and for the right apps it works a treat.

]]> By: David Crow http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-10074 David Crow Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:02:00 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-10074 <p>We were looking at the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Elastic Compute Cloud</a> yesterday and tried to sign up for the beta program, but I'm too damn slow. The price/performance looks fantastic. And I figure <a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/" target="_blank">Werner Vogels</a> and his team are capable of architecting high availability web servers.</p><br /> <br /> <p>That said, the Sun box really is a piece of art. It works beautifully, it should, it's more expensive than the commodity hardware we're running now, but it's way more robust.</p> <p>We were looking at the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/&quot; target="_blank">Elastic Compute Cloud</a> yesterday and tried to sign up for the beta program, but I'm too damn slow. The price/performance looks fantastic. And I figure <a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/&quot; target="_blank">Werner Vogels</a> and his team are capable of architecting high availability web servers.</p><br />
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<p>That said, the Sun box really is a piece of art. It works beautifully, it should, it's more expensive than the commodity hardware we're running now, but it's way more robust.</p>

]]> By: Brent Ashley http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-10075 Brent Ashley Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:15:00 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-10075 <p>oops – my more relevant point is that with such virtual servers you generally have control and access to their console or config settings from afar even if you’ve gone and bogosified the network interface.</p> <p>oops – my more relevant point is that with such virtual servers you generally have control and access to their console or config settings from afar even if you’ve gone and bogosified the network interface.</p>

]]> By: Brent Ashley http://davidcrow.ca/article/1237/the-sun-never-sets/comment-page-1#comment-10076 Brent Ashley Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:09:00 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=741#comment-10076 <p>Practically infinite scalability on demand could be in your future & see what Jonathan Boutelle has to say about Amazon's new <br /><a href="http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2006/08/utility_computi.html" target="_blank">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud</a>. The comments add additional insight too. </p><br /> <br /> <p>I've been using multiple virtual machines and round-robin DNS for some time now and for the right apps it works a treat.</p> <p>Practically infinite scalability on demand could be in your future & see what Jonathan Boutelle has to say about Amazon's new <br /><a href="http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2006/08/utility_computi.html&quot; target="_blank">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud</a>. The comments add additional insight too. </p><br />
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<p>I've been using multiple virtual machines and round-robin DNS for some time now and for the right apps it works a treat.</p>

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