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I was planning to launch our startup in a few hours. Oh well.
by SwaroopH 14y ago
I was planning to launch our startup in a few hours. Oh well.
- johncoogan 14y agoPivot to a PaaS with a focus on uptime?
- flyt 14y agoOr build your application with the characteristics of the underlying platform in mind. Nobody would run a DB server on a single spindle drive since occasionally they fail. Accordingly, nobody should deploy non-multi-az AWS applications because occasionally they fail.
- nkohari 14y agoExcept if you want to, you know, ship.
- SwaroopH 14y agoas a matter of fact, our app is using multi-zones not just for instances but also for RDS. As of now, I can't reach anything including the loadbalancer.
- flyt 14y agoAll I've ever heard and seen in practice is that RDS should generally be avoided for production usage. Its opaque reliance on EBS is its downfall.
- SwaroopH 14y agoPossibly but there are bigger companies using RDS in production – also, the multi-az feature had worked out better than my own custom setup. Unfortunately lack of resources prevent me from rolling out my own setup on bare metal.
- SwaroopH 14y agoHaha, I probably should. A friend of mine has already suggested I would be better off doing a PaaS startup because of my sysops skills. I always felt the market is currently too saturated. But looking at Heroku having trouble themselves, may be I should give it some serious thought.