On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Zac Spitzer <zac.spit...@gmail.com> wrote: > With EC2 you are also pretty much completely on your own support wise.
It's liking having your own dedicated servers in a colo so, yes, in that respect you'll get no CF-specific support. Amazon is for people who know how to manage servers, as are Rackspace. Avera look like a standard CF hosting company - shared hosting, VPS, dedicated - rather than a cloud service, so it's a bit pointless to compare them, yes? > EC2 has terrible IO performance, unless your looking at scaling up to mulitple > nodes, I would recommend avoiding EC2, the pricing is no longer that > competitive either. Amazon have a free micro instance (that will run ColdFusion - although it's tight; Railo / OpenBD do better because they use fewer resources). Certainly Amazon EC2 instances are, cost wise, much like a high-end VPS or dedicated server. I've generally found the basic EC2 storage to be slower than regular disk but EBS is high performance - the two storage types are designed to behave very differently. At Broadchoice, we moved from dedicated servers at a colo to large EC2 instances and, although startup time was slower due to EC2 storage, performance in general was much better and we were able to go from four instances to just two, supporting the same traffic with the same user response times. We experienced about one outage a year in the first couple of years of operation but Amazon's uptime and reliability has improved dramatically since then. The real benefits of cloud computing come not from Infrastructure as a Service (Rackspace**, Amazon, etc) but Platform as a Service (Google App Engine, CloudBees RUN@cloud formerly Stax, etc) where you don't worry about the servers, just the application, and the service takes care of upward and downward scaling on demand for you, automatically. **Rackspace are working on a Java-based PaaS offering but I don't recall details, nor where they've got to in the process. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
