anders pearson schrieb: > The real advantage of the EC2 stuff as I see it is that additional > machines are available on demand and can be switched on and off > through an API. So if you have an app that usually has a very small > load but every once in a while experiences huge spikes and has to > remain responsive during those spikes, EC2 could be a real deal. You > could be running on one machine for 364 days of the year and, when the > load spikes one day, it could automatically start up 100 more machines > for a couple hours and then turn them off again when it's over.
Yes, that's a reasonable scenario, but it would be stupid to have the 24/365 host (i.e the web/application server and load_balancer) running on Amazon EC2 when you can use a cheap virtual host for it. Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
