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sounds like a redefinition of 'in any way' to me... So why am I singing the praises of Amazon and EC2? Mainly to dispel the opinion that the site getting slowe
by rubyrescue 17y ago
sounds like a redefinition of 'in any way' to me...
So why am I singing the praises of Amazon and EC2? Mainly to dispel the opinion that the site getting slower since the move is in any way related to Amazon...(snipped)...Unfortunately, the single EBS volumes they were on could not handle these bursting writes.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoThis isn't an EC2 issue, this is a SAN issue. Wether it is EBS or an NFS drive, meh. This is an architecting issue and while it is a result of the underlying hardware, the underlying hardware is not the constraint.
- rubyrescue 17y agoagreed it's largely an architecture issue, however poor EBS performance is contributing factor and he seems to go out of his way to say that it's not...
- pavs 17y agoHe went out of his way because most reddit user keep blaming AWS for the recent issues, as jedberg (reddit IT guy) recently mentioned the problem is not with AWS scaling but with reddit software scaling.
- jedberg 17y agoBlaming poor EBS performance would be like blaming Intel for their 4GhZ processor not being able to do your protein folding in 5 seconds. It is simply a known limitation that has to be worked around. Even if we owned the servers, we would have the same limitation -- eventually you just can't get the performance out of a single disk.