Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future

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From	Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
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Subject	Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future
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Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> writes:
> A while back I compared my ESXi cluster at work with buying the nodes
> from Linode on demand.  We were cheaper per guest VM [...]  Amazon's
> offerings do not meet our requirements even if they might be cheaper.

I remember an article on this subject from an MMO company (Blizzard?  I
forget) a couple of years ago.  The gist of it was, they had their own
servers for the sustained load and used Amazon EC2 instances to absorb
peaks, e.g. when they launched a new expansion pack.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

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Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-03 20:45 +0000
  Re:Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-05 10:29 +0000
    Re: Re:Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-05 17:04 +0000
    Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-04-05 11:35 -0700
    Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-05 19:47 +0100
      Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-04-06 01:31 -0300
        Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-06 18:49 +0000
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@hushmail.com> - 2014-04-06 14:14 -0500
            Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future "G. Paul Ziemba" <paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu> - 2014-04-07 01:18 +0000
            Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-07 09:06 +0000
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-06 22:35 +0000
            Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-07 00:18 +0100
      Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-04-06 22:04 +0200
        Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-06 22:18 +0100
  Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-04-07 23:25 +0100
    Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-08 10:40 +0100
      Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-08 17:48 +0000
        Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-08 19:11 +0100
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-04-08 19:34 +0000
          Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-04-09 17:56 +0000

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