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Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?

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On 20/05/15 00:05, Bruce Sinclair wrote:

>> (Who said outsourcing saves money?)
>
>
> Ooo! ... ooo  !    I know this one ... pick me ! ...
>
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> .. the outsourcers (of course :) ).
>

Re: Amazon EC2:

http://blog.awe.sm/2012/12/18/aws-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#~pde2twD6CvrBTH

"Virtual hardware doesn’t last as long as real hardware. Our average 
observed lifetime for a virtual machine on EC2 over the last 3 years has 
been about 200 days. After that, the chances of it being “retired” rise 
hugely. And Amazon’s “retirement” process is unpredictable: sometime 
they’ll notify you ten days in advance that a box is going to be shut 
down; sometimes the retirement notification email arrives 2 hours after 
the box has already failed. Rapidly-failing hardware is not too big a 
deal — it’s easy to spin up fresh hardware, after all — but it’s 
important to be aware of it, and invest in deployment automation early, 
to limit the amount of time you need to burn replacing boxes all the time."


That horrifies me. I can see the point of EC2 for spinning up loads of 
short lived VMs for a big compute job - or as media servers where it is 
assumed there are N identical servers and they are individually redundant.

But for "proper servers" it looks a hopeless service - no to mention the 
lack of console access.

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