I wonder if looking at Amazon EC3 for deployment makes sense now? I know a lot of web startups are using it because it is cheaper than dedicated servers.
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Rob - May 06, 2008 8:15:33 pm PDT #1651 of 4673
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 8:22:08 pm PDT #1652 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Please to elaborate? I'm on the phone so googling isn't practical.
Rob - May 06, 2008 8:35:20 pm PDT #1653 of 4673
Actually, its Amazon EC2, and it's a service they provide where you rent virtual machines by the hour. You can run any software you want on them.
It's hard to be sure, but I'd guess that we'd spend less per month on that than on our dedicated server.
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 8:46:57 pm PDT #1654 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll have to plug our numbers into their calculator and see where we fall. Looks very fancy.
Rob - May 06, 2008 8:49:07 pm PDT #1655 of 4673
For the startups it's particularly attractive, since money they spend on their own hardware is money wasted if they end up being acquired by a bigger company with it's own server farms. They also have the option to ramp up and down fairly quickly in case they get slashdotted.
Deena - May 06, 2008 9:34:49 pm PDT #1656 of 4673
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§ ita § - May 06, 2008 10:09:45 pm PDT #1657 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They have no PostgreSQL. What's with the hating?
Though MySQL may have caught up.
amych - May 07, 2008 3:59:22 am PDT #1658 of 4673
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Remind me of the particular reasons for the MySQL hate-on, again? A lot of things have changed in the most recent versions.
(also, noting that "hate-on" is an exaggeration for not-very-humorous effect -- but what particular features are you looking for from a switch to Postgresql?)
§ ita § - May 07, 2008 5:01:54 am PDT #1659 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The specific issue I'd had with MySQL no longer exists--they have caught up on the stored procedure front, for example. At the last inspection the only thing is that I'd started to re-architect the systm in PostgreSQL and used some features that it had that MySQL didn't. It's not a real investment, since the rearchitecture is mostly paperware at this point.
I am left with a residual "Hmm?" when PostgreSQL is excluded, though. Just on principle.
Frankenbuddha - May 07, 2008 7:02:43 am PDT #1660 of 4673
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