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Ironic how the website is down for me.

• jyothepro 14y ago
  yes the website is down for me too
  • stephengillie 14y ago
    As a demonstration of their capabilities, I'm underwhelmed.
    • rjsamson 14y ago
      Ha! Well said!
    • beaucoeur 14y ago
      I think it's a demonstration of how popular the post is, not their capabilities.
• lemieux 14y ago
  It was slow but it appeared at last after 5 tries.
• heretohelp 14y ago
  So we're supposed to trust these people with our data?
  • StavrosK 14y ago
    No, it says it right on the page. It's for non-privacy-sensitive applications.
    • heretohelp 14y ago
      Presumably you are using the results of the distributed system's work for something. Can you trust those results from people who can't keep a web server alive?
      • mthoms 14y ago
        I'm not sure what you mean by "can't keep a web server alive" but I think the answer to your question is to run your computations on multiple instances at once to validate your results.
      • z92 14y ago
        Give them some break. Probably they are still building it. Frequently people post to HN before things are ready so that friends can review it and post feedback.
      • nmridul 14y ago
        Why the hatred ?
• justinsb 14y ago
  In the bigger picture, there are a whole lot of interesting things that would need to be built to allow for non-batch processing on a cloud like this... a smart web proxy / front-end that could cope when your instances go down being #1 on the list.