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Quora Is Down, and They're "Not Pointing Fingers at EC2"

• edtechre 16y ago
  Scary. I actually remember those TV segments from my childhood. 0_0 And I'm feeling better that I decided to go with Rackspace instead of EC2.
• espeed 16y ago
  I have been debating where to put the servers for our startup -- Rackspace is looking better and better.
  • edtechre 16y ago
    Scheduling backups and setting up DNS is certainly easier on Rackspace.
    • ahyes 16y ago
      Or you could just hire one of those millions of people who's skillset includes tar, gzip, mysqldump/pgdump, rsync and simple bind configuration.
  • jedberg 16y ago
    Despite the fact that my site has been down for 3 hours, I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup. Just don't use EBS.
    • espeed 16y ago
      It seems like the AWS outages are happing more and more frequently -- didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?
      • jedberg 16y ago
        > didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago? Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.