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A small startup responds to Amazon's S3 outage

• badri 18y ago
  good lessons to learn.
• mynameishere 18y ago
  Are there any memcached-style tools that can sit between S3 and local servers? Seems like the most popular data could continue to be served up indefinitely.
  • kogir 18y ago
    I'm pretty sure that would defeat the purpose for many people. It sounds like in this case S3 was being used as a CDN (which it's not) to save bandwidth and improve response times. Using memcached locally gives you neither of those properties.
  • kennyroo 18y ago
    Not sure. Would love to know if such a tool exists.
  • anotherjesse 18y ago
    Try varnish
• teuobk 18y ago
  It sounds like they had their backups stored on a home machine and had to deal with a slow uplink to restore them. A cheap alternative is to use an inexpensive (but reliable) shared hosting provider for off-site backup. Don't use the account for serving web pages -- just use it as a fast, cheap parking spot for backup archives.
  • kennyroo 18y ago
    You're absolutely right. That's the plan going forward.
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