re: Cloud Srorage vs Garage data center Elastic Block is NAS . This is why Elastic Block storage is two to three orders of magnitude slower than SSD attach

re: Cloud Srorage vs Garage data center Elastic Block is NAS . This is why Elastic Block storage is two to three orders of magnitude slower than SSD attached to a server in your garage. 1 EC2 compute unit is analagous to a 1.6 Ghz 2005 Opteron, or performance wise it's similar to a fast Atom processor. I can build a 4 core server with 8 Gigs of RAM and 120GB of SSD and 2 TB of spinning disk for around $600. SSD latencies are low enough that they can be thought of as slow local memory. So, for the cost of a 3 to 4 months of medium / large instance EC2 instances, you can have roughly 8 times the processing power and 2 orders of magnitude more local memory/SSD. By setting up a couple of cheap servers in my garage, I can get as much processing power as 20 to 30 EC2 instances. That means I can spend a lot more time worrying about coding and less worrying about SysOps. re: single word search You are absolutely right. As I said, our search is very much in alpha right now, and I really haven't spent much time at all on it.