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I was going to build a service based on cloudfiles over the weekend, but it was pretty much unusable, because I got timeouts all the time. It was certainly dis
by bk 18y ago
I was going to build a service based on cloudfiles over the weekend, but it was pretty much unusable, because I got timeouts all the time.
It was certainly disconcerting to see the failure of a component that was supposed to be the core of my infrastructure. Cloudfiles just moved out of beta about a week ago, and for growing pains the outage was pretty long.
According to their status updates, data integrity was never at stake, just availability. CDN files were always accessible.
I'm relieved to see that the Jungle Disk integration seems to be to blame for this, since this hints at a one-time peak load event rather than an overall infrastructure failure.
I think the ease of use of the CDN and low latency of delivery for many small files is a big win. Is anyone else here (thinking of) using them?
- reconbot 18y agoI've got little love for Mosso and their offerings. Rackspace as a whole has never done me wrong but I have wasted many hours working with their techs dealing with some of their server problems on Mosso (this is for hosting not cloudfiles). I eventually had to ask for my money back which they gave me but not before they tried everything in their power to keep me working with them. (Which by that point I considered a waste of time and migrated clients over to SliceHost which later got bought out by Rackspace...) So while I may be biased - I'd like to point out that a bug in a end user product brought down their entire cloudfiles platform and that the same bug also effected S3 and had no noticeable effect.