Comments on: This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3 http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:39:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Rajiv Pant http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-259 Rajiv Pant Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:28:27 +0000 http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-259 Duane, Good question. I use my personal Web site as an R&D and learning environment. It enables me to experiment on a site that is real and has importance to me. Over the years, I've used a number of mainstream technologies including HTML/CGI, MS ASP, .NET, Java and PHP/WordPress to power this site. EC2 enables me to experiment with server virtualization and dynamic "elastic" hosting environments, an area of my interest. For someone looking to simply host a personal Web site only, I agree with you and recommend lower-cost alternatives. With EC2 and S3, Amazon has brought some of the power of a distributed edge computing platforms like <a href="http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/edgecomputing.html" rel="nofollow">Akamai's Edge Computing</a> and <a href="http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/products/netstorage.html" rel="nofollow">NetStorage</a> to the mainstream, including startup ventures (whether independent or within large organizations), small businesses and organizations with budget constraints. It will be exciting to see if Akamai responds by offering their edge computing platform to the masses. I hope they do, because I've been impressed by Akamai's products for years. Akamai has enabled many major media companies to handle traffic spikes without having to build out multiple geographically distributed data centers of their own. I hope Akamai views EC2 and S3 as competitors in distributed elastic computing. That will be good for Amazon AWS, for Akamai and for businesses that benefit from such products. Duane,

Good question. I use my personal Web site as an R&D and learning environment. It enables me to experiment on a site that is real and has importance to me. Over the years, I’ve used a number of mainstream technologies including HTML/CGI, MS ASP, .NET, Java and PHP/WordPress to power this site. EC2 enables me to experiment with server virtualization and dynamic “elastic” hosting environments, an area of my interest.

For someone looking to simply host a personal Web site only, I agree with you and recommend lower-cost alternatives.

With EC2 and S3, Amazon has brought some of the power of a distributed edge computing platforms like Akamai’s Edge Computing and NetStorage to the mainstream, including startup ventures (whether independent or within large organizations), small businesses and organizations with budget constraints. It will be exciting to see if Akamai responds by offering their edge computing platform to the masses. I hope they do, because I’ve been impressed by Akamai’s products for years. Akamai has enabled many major media companies to handle traffic spikes without having to build out multiple geographically distributed data centers of their own. I hope Akamai views EC2 and S3 as competitors in distributed elastic computing. That will be good for Amazon AWS, for Akamai and for businesses that benefit from such products.

]]> By: duanestorey http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-235 duanestorey Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:56:11 +0000 http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-235 It's a neat technical achievement, but I have to ask why you would do it with a personal site? You can get shared hosting for < $20 / month. So why would you pay a minimum of around $70? It’s a neat technical achievement, but I have to ask why you would do it with a personal site? You can get shared hosting for < $20 / month. So why would you pay a minimum of around $70?

]]> By: Rajiv Pant http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-186 Rajiv Pant Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:42:17 +0000 http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-186 Amazon S3 had an outage in the morning of Friday, February 15th. You can read my <a href="http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/16/s3-outage/" rel="nofollow">opinion on the Amazon S3 outage and suggestions for dealing with outages</a>. Amazon S3 had an outage in the morning of Friday, February 15th. You can read my opinion on the Amazon S3 outage and suggestions for dealing with outages.

]]> By: Ryan Joy http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-134 Ryan Joy Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:57:08 +0000 http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/04/amazon-ec2/#comment-134 Well, now I wish I weren't locked into Dreamhost for another 2 years. This is the first post I've seen that made EC2/S3 look enticing from an individual's point-of-view. Well, now I wish I weren’t locked into Dreamhost for another 2 years. This is the first post I’ve seen that made EC2/S3 look enticing from an individual’s point-of-view.

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