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Can the multi-tenant problem be solved by just using the beefiest EC2 instance available? At some point don't you become the only one occupying that box? And if
by tabizzle 15y ago
Can the multi-tenant problem be solved by just using the beefiest EC2 instance available? At some point don't you become the only one occupying that box? And if your site has the volume that MixPanel does, I assume you wouldn't be exposing yourself to single-point-of-failure issues because you'd still have many such boxes. Can someone more knowledgeable please address these?
- fleitz 15y agoIt could, but it can also be solved reliably by buying your own hardware tailored to the needs of your specific application. Single point of failure issues aren't solved by the cloud. Their solved by eliminating single points of failure. 1 VM is just as much of a single point of failure as one real machine. Even if it were true about buying the beefiest VM you're betting your company on an implementation detail that you have no control over.