[–] edtechre 15y ago ↗ Scary. I actually remember those TV segments from my childhood. 0_0And I'm feeling better that I decided to go with Rackspace instead of EC2.
[–] espeed 15y ago ↗ I have been debating where to put the servers for our startup -- Rackspace is looking better and better. [–] edtechre 15y ago ↗ Scheduling backups and setting up DNS is certainly easier on Rackspace. [–] [dead] ahyes 15y ago ↗ Or you could just hire one of those millions of people who's skillset includes tar, gzip, mysqldump/pgdump, rsync and simple bind configuration. [–] jedberg 15y ago ↗ Despite the fact that my site has been down for 3 hours, I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup.Just don't use EBS. [–] espeed 15y ago ↗ It seems like the AWS outages are happing more and more frequently -- didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago? [–] jedberg 15y ago ↗ > didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.
[–] edtechre 15y ago ↗ Scheduling backups and setting up DNS is certainly easier on Rackspace. [–] [dead] ahyes 15y ago ↗ Or you could just hire one of those millions of people who's skillset includes tar, gzip, mysqldump/pgdump, rsync and simple bind configuration.
[–] [dead] ahyes 15y ago ↗ Or you could just hire one of those millions of people who's skillset includes tar, gzip, mysqldump/pgdump, rsync and simple bind configuration.
[–] jedberg 15y ago ↗ Despite the fact that my site has been down for 3 hours, I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup.Just don't use EBS. [–] espeed 15y ago ↗ It seems like the AWS outages are happing more and more frequently -- didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago? [–] jedberg 15y ago ↗ > didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.
[–] espeed 15y ago ↗ It seems like the AWS outages are happing more and more frequently -- didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago? [–] jedberg 15y ago ↗ > didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.
[–] jedberg 15y ago ↗ > didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 22.8 ms ] threadAnd I'm feeling better that I decided to go with Rackspace instead of EC2.
Just don't use EBS.
Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.