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It's an interesting angle if that's the reason they are using EC2. Dedicated hosting might be more expensive, but hardware managed is pretty efficient at this p
by look_lookatme 16y ago
It's an interesting angle if that's the reason they are using EC2. Dedicated hosting might be more expensive, but hardware managed is pretty efficient at this point.
Also, given the vast number of EC2 instances they could afford, it seems counter intuitive to be running only two mongrel shards. If you are that stingy about spreading data around, you might as well be using dedicated.
- dirkgadsden 16y agoIt doesn't seem that it was necessarily stinginess of neglect, but rather stinginess imposed by their situation. Like the article said, it took hours to create a new shard, downtime that Foursquare definitely did not want.
- look_lookatme 16y agoWhoops, I meant "mongo" shard!