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I interviewed these guys at Structure 2008 for my blog. They were pretty nice and rather reasonable people. They seemed to have an understanding of their streng
by dnsworks 17y ago
I interviewed these guys at Structure 2008 for my blog. They were pretty nice and rather reasonable people. They seemed to have an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. To be fair, they're not targeted at the Web 2.0 market that EC2 has targeted. They're more suited as an alternative to dedicated servers, and seemed to be targeting traditional businesses who are bad at capacity planning.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29307 http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29307 was the interview if anyone's interested.
- z8000 17y agoCould you elaborate on your comment about targeting companies bad at capacity planning? I did not get that from the interview at least. Also, I am considering using them and wonder how I might be implicitly bad at capacity planning :)
- dnsworks 17y agoForgive me, I'm a much better technologist than I am a blogger .. Hence the sparse number of entries on my blog! In general, I feel that the whole EC2/instant provisioning model of servers, which for any moderate (10+ serverS) application tends to be far more expensive than owning your own hardware over the long run, is a sign of an infrastructure that either does not excel at capacity planning, or that is unable to plan for capacity.