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Actually, there was a heated discussion on such an issue a month ago at Reddit [1], when AWS started acting up back then. Someone was asking why cann't Reddit b
by cygwin98 15y ago
Actually, there was a heated discussion on such an issue a month ago at Reddit [1], when AWS started acting up back then. Someone was asking why cann't Reddit buy beefy servers and co-lo them. The arguments were that considering the traffic Reddit is having, it's very difficult to DIY technically if not possible. Looking back, it looks like co-lo is still the way to go, especially for big sites like Reddit. Anyway, if StackOverflow can make it, why cannot Reddit, both have comparable traffic?
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l76ok http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...
- kbatten 15y agoWhether you co-lo or run in the cloud it seems to me that you would still want the same types of redundancy/failover processes in place. The advantage of EC2 is you can easily set up servers in multiple places across the globe (or at least across the country if you just want to host in the US.)
- jshen 15y agoand there are many downsides to EC2, dependence on a third party to a greater degree, shitty disk IO, instances go down more frequently than real servers, inflexibility with hardware (no SSDs), etc, etc. There are co-lo provides that have data centers in different places.