(originally posted September 16th, 2008)
Recently I went to an amazon web service thing up in salt lake. Turns out the cloud (they say) is all the rage. Folks doing pretty well everything in the cloud. I recently moved the start of holaservers to google app engine. Here is a before pic
Pretty well every non-S3 thing was a single point of failure.
And now
So, for a bit of work, I have a highly available front page. And for some reason, it is free until I start getting like five million hits a month. Yeah, not really bumping up to that.
At the aws thing, I learned that I could do all my holaservers stuff in their cloud. Didn’t really think I could do ftp or kind of hard web serving via my own custom apache, but yeah, can totally do both. Sounds like EC2 can pretty well just give me a virtual opensolaris box. I am kind of tempted to start moving stuff on over. Besides a pretty big aws learning curve, and quite a bit of work, I would have to start putting out $72 a month, which won’t really be happening till I make some money or become a startup finalist. Think I find out on October 3rd.
Earl
Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, google app engine, holaservers, s3