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Media Streaming + Online Backups with Drobo + Pogoplug(staging.drobo.com)
3 points by jread 15y ago|0 comments
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by jread 15y ago
I created a similar open source javascript/ajax/xhtml only browser-based desktop, with an OS X like GUI. It was fun, but a waste of time, and it never caught on. There isn't much of a use case for extendable OS like browser desktops imho.
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One cloud server to rule them all - cc2.8xlarge versus 14 top end cloud servers(cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 15y ago|0 comments
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Is Joyent Really 14X Faster than EC2 and Azure the "Fastest Cloud"?(blog.cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 15y ago|1 comments
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by jread 15y ago
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud generally implies a few distinguishing features such as hourly utility billing and no long term commitments, rapid elasticity (provision/de-provision in minutes, not hours) and usually (but not alway
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by jread 15y ago
For what it's worth, I ran the tests and wrote this blog post and can assure you that we made every effort to be fair with the methodology and honest about the results. Take a look at our blog and website. Since 2009, we've released many be
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Encoding Performance: Comparing Zencoder, Encoding.com, Sorenson & Panda(blog.cloudharmony.com)
4 points by jread 15y ago|0 comments
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by jread 15y ago
This seems sort of like CloudFlare built directly into the browser. Essentially, using EC2 as an http optimizing and caching proxy through which requests are routed. They might also geo balance traffic to the closest EC2 region.
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by jread 15y ago
True, but without Anycast you wont' be able to control which server users query, and your latency for EU or APAC users will probably be in the range of 200-800ms. Route 53 uses Anycast network infrastructure with many geographically dispers
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by jread 15y ago
Typically this is true as the only performance hit will be due to the initial lookup, and then your resolver will cache the record. However, if your DNS record uses a low TTL (required for things like DNS-based monitoring/failover) like 30
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by jread 15y ago
Providers that utilize an Anycast DNS infrastructure (Route 53, Dyn, DNS Made Easy, Cotendo, Easy DNS) will generally be faster for lookups than those that do not due to lower network latency. This is especially true for international users
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by jread 15y ago
If you are interested in DNS performance comparison, I created a tool for comparing DNS query times of 16 different hosted DNS providers including Route 53, Dyn, DNS Made Easy, UltraDNS, Rackspace, SoftLayer, Easy DNS, Zerigo and a few othe
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by jread 15y ago
I run a site that monitors over 100 different cloud services. Our monitoring node in EC2 EU West went down at 10:48:51 PDT. Our monitored application with PHP PaaS cloudControl, also hosted in EC2 EU West, went down at the same time. For th
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by jread 15y ago
Check out http://cloudharmony.com/status We've been monitoring Storm for over 18 months and never once experienced an outage. They are one of only a few providers with no downtime (we monitor over 100 different cloud services).
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by jread 15y ago
We just released this, and are looking for feedback. Here are the providers currently supported (only 5 of 10 support the geo-targeted testing): Route 53, Dyn, Cotendo, UltraDNS, EasyDNS, DNS Made Easy, Rackspace Cloud DNS (not Anycast), Lo
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Test DNS query time and geo-targeting accuracy of 10 Anycast DNS providers(cloudharmony.com)
3 points by jread 15y ago|1 comments
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by jread 15y ago
I've done some benchmarking of softlayer cloudlayer and their "SAN" back cloud servers have about the worst IO performance of any provider. Even the largest 16 and 32GB instances performed extremely poorly. EC2 EBS is a much better performi
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by jread 15y ago
In response to question #1. I've conducted some similar benchmarking across all instance sizes and using both ephemeral and EBS with and without Raid. EBS is notably faster on larger instances. We observed roughly 2.5-3X better IO with EBS
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An unofficial EC2 outage postmortem - the sky is not falling(cloudharmony.com)
19 points by jread 15y ago|2 comments
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An unofficial EC2 outage postmortem - the sky is not falling(blog.cloudharmony.com)
3 points by jread 15y ago|0 comments
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by jread 15y ago
You also have the option to use ephemeral storage if you prefer not to deal with EBS. All instances provide ephemeral storage with the exception of t1.micro.
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by jread 15y ago
This study was sponsored by Rackspace. It is based entirely on 2 benchmarks - iozone and linux kernel compilation time.... not exactly a thorough study. It also only tests m1 instances and ephemeral storage. Not a great study imo.
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by jread 15y ago
I've conducted extensive benchmarking of rackspace cloud, ec2 and about 38 other iaas providers. Rackspace cloud is definitely not faster than ec2 by a long shot. Rackspace cloud utilizes homogonous infrastructure, AMD 2374 to be exact. All
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by jread 16y ago
Or without the redirect callback: http://cloudharmony.com/mydns
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Lookup your user's DNS resolver IP with callback(cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 16y ago|1 comments
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by jread 16y ago
Thanks, I'll try a couple of those in the next interview.
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by jread 16y ago
Not many I suppose, a decent consulting rate is about all. Those are things I don't have much control over.
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by jread 16y ago
We are developing a new application that operates separately from the auction software. The team is small and we all have fairly diverse roles.
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by jread 16y ago
BTW, this isn't intended as a flame post, I just would like to know if this is typical or not. I keep recommending to my manager that we hold out for someone that has more breadth of experience, but at this point I'm not sure we are ever go
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Ask HN: Why are Java developers so boring?
16 points by jread 16y ago|22 comments

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