Yeah, to replace an entire hosting setup, it may not be cost effective. But for specific applications, it can make a lot of sense when you look at the wider functionality available.
If you are looking at massive dips and spikes in traffic - you can't go past being about to expand and collapse in the cloud (Elastic Load Balancer). If you are going to do massive asynchronous batch processing of data off and on - spot instances make a lot of sense here. You need a CDN - cloudfront makes a lot of sense, building your own would suck Massive MySQL replication - RDS can make a lot of sense (although their performance on mySQL isn't crash hot in my experience). If you want to split up your application into lots of micro boxes that each have their own tasks - SQS and Micro Instances, are awesome. (Trickier to do this on traditional architectures). The list goes on. It's pretty neat set of tools, but if you were to look at it as a straight 'I have a server here, vs I have a server somewhere in the sky', it doesn't necessarily match up. Mark On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Josh Wines <j...@joshwines.com> wrote: > ** > Don't forget to also look into Amazon's 'Reserved Instance' pricing as that > is a much more cost effective solution when running instances, especially > 24/7. > > > On 09/08/2011 04:21 PM, Andrew Scott wrote: > > Steve, I have to agree with where you are coming from. When you compare > physical to virtual, it does seem very expensive to run. > > But I also understand the benefits that Virtual gives you as well, and I > am with you in that I am not sure that for small and I refer to you as small > in the space of it all, could justify the cost of Cloud Computing. > > > -- > Regards, > Andrew Scott > WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > Google+: http://plus.google.com/108193156965451149543 > > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Steve Onnis <st...@cfcentral.com.au>wrote: > >> Yes paying by the hour is great but when you are using them as >> production instances which need to be up 24/7 then the paying by the >> hour doesn't really come into it. >> >> -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- E: mark.man...@gmail.com T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic W: www.compoundtheory.com cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex - Nov 17, 18 - Melbourne Australia http://www.cfobjective.com.au 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast http://www.2ddu.com/ -- 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.
