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I used Scalr.net for my last startup, and one issue they had twice during the year I paid them $50 a month was... their entire site went down from a DDOS attack
by rjurney 18y ago
I used Scalr.net for my last startup, and one issue they had twice during the year I paid them $50 a month was... their entire site went down from a DDOS attack. Each time they upgraded their hardware and setup, but overall I think they were running like 98% uptime for the last year. Not quite good enough for the mainstream.
Scalr literally handles dynamic scaling of your application, so it failing is a bit worse than this, though.
- numair 18y agoDid your instances suffer as a result of this downtime? I've been playing around with Scalr, haven't really seen any problems as of late... Would love more input from others who have used / are using the service.
- rjurney 18y agoNo, they just didn't scale during the outage. I do recommend Scalr, its great, but I also tell people that its bleeding edge.
- sanswork 18y agoI use scalr at the moment(paid service) we have just under 20 instances spread among 6 farms. Been using them for about 3 months now with very few problems. The only major issue I've had is that their DB roles aren't great for large db's(>100gig) though I think they are working on an SBS one. As it is I use a modified role to allow SBS but have to muck around too much for comfort on start ups since the SBS partitions don't always mount at startup(sometimes up to 10 minutes later) and when they do that the DB init scripts fail which causes scalr to cycle the instance and start the whole process over again. That said I've only had to do that twice since I've used them.