When your site become more than trivial, shared hosting $4.95 plans just dont cut the mustard. When your site hits even more users, just opting for dedicated servers is not enough either. You need to optimize several layers. The idea is to make best use of resources. Reduce the size/time of web pages. Then using […]
It seems amazon had a cloud outage of up to 72 hours. It was something to do with their storage servers, something failed in one data centre, it started to re-replicate from other data centres. The re-replication overloaded other storage servers, and the network between them. The outage then began to effect more data centres, […]
Amazon just released GPU cluster rentals by the hour. It allows custom mathematical and scientific applications to run much fast than on intel CPUs. Its not necessarily very useful for general business or web applications, but it does show both how committed amazon is to scalability, and that there is an increasing number of solutions out there. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/11/15/announcing-cluster-gpu-instances-for-amazon-ec2/