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DotCloud (YC S10) gets $10M to redefine cloud openness
- swGooF 16y agoCongrats DotCloud. Please use the money to keep doing great things.
- shykes 16y agoThanks! We have tons of stuff in the pipeline.
- austinchang 16y agoyeah! great job guys... keep it up
- jamroom 16y agoIt looks like we weren't the only ones who think the service rocks - way to go! Congrats all around!
- justin 16y agoWow, that is a fat round. Nice job!
- daniel_levine 16y agoNice! Don't spend it all in one place
- vidar 16y agoAnyone know when they come out of beta?
- tedjdziuba 16y agoWith a round that big, it looks like Dotcloud is going to buy their own hardware and become a full bore hosting company, which is fantastic, if it can convince people to move out of the EC2 slum. Either that, or the founders took too much money and diluted themselves beyond reason.
- fuzzmeister 16y agoJust curious, why do you call EC2 a "slum"? We've had nothing but good experiences with it.
- tedjdziuba 16y agoAll of AWS, really. My experiences with EC2 were abysmal: unpredictable CPU and disk performance, uselessly slow disk I/O, instances dropping off the face of the earth at least once a week. Reddit's recent downtime is a good indicator of how sloppy AWS as a whole really is.
- gsharma 16y agoI agree with slow disk I/O, but how do you think Netflix is doing so well with EC2? Adding more machines than they need to?
- tt 16y agoThey put in great engineering effort to ensure high availability despite random instance failures. I really like their Chaos Monkey. See: http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u...
- tedjdziuba 16y agoI don't have any data points about Netflix's migration other than their public statements about it, which undoubtedly would conceal any major issues they are struggling with. From what they have said publicly: - They had to re-architect their entire system To me, this seems like a poor business decision. I don't know the specifics of their CapEx, but it seems unlikely that the money saved by cotenancy at Amazon is worth the risk of changing known-working, business critical code. - Machine failure is such a strong expectation that they have a system that purposefully brings machines down. While I applaud the pedantic reasoning behind this, I suspect it's driven more by technical masturbation than business needs.
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- twakefield 16y agoCongrats guys! That's a very impressive raise.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoHey Om, how about a link to the real dotcloud web page instead of the myriad of useless links to your own network?
- gasi 16y agoCongrats, guys! The experience I've had with the service has been nothing short of phenomenal so far. Keep up the good work :)
- kineticac 16y agocongrats dotcloud! you guys deserve it! Glad we're hosted with such an awesome company.
- Jabbles 16y agoWhy does this article not actually link to http://www.dotcloud.com http://www.dotcloud.com?
- bmelton 16y agoNext to Vim, I've never had any product, or startup, affect how I do real world work as much as dotcloud does. If you like EC2, pip, virtualenv, and don't like deployments, or system administration, or tuning memory settings, then dotcloud is the platform for you. For as much as people love Heroku, DotCloud offers everything I liked about Heroku, and extends those conveniences to almost every platform I've ever worked with. If I were in the venture capital business, I genuinely couldn't think of a better place to put 10 million.
- joshbaptiste 16y agoGood stuff, representatives were at Pycon, friendly guys.