Comments on: Facebook Announces Amazon Partnership http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/ The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News and More! Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:57:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: gargouri2001 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-16157 gargouri2001 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:35:36 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-16157 really really useful info , Thanks for this post<br><br>john<br><a href="http://xtupload.com">http://xtupload.com</a> really really useful info , Thanks for this post

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]]> By: Marc http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-6916 Marc Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:45:08 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-6916 Nobody is mentioning the fact that with EC2 there is no immutable storage for your database. You literally have to hack together a backup/sync/recovery routine into and out of S3 or somewhere else. If your EC2 instance goes down, highly likely if you get enough traffic, or, if Amazon's cloud goes den then your DB is SOL. Nobody is mentioning the fact that with EC2 there is no immutable storage for your database. You literally have to hack together a backup/sync/recovery routine into and out of S3 or somewhere else. If your EC2 instance goes down, highly likely if you get enough traffic, or, if Amazon’s cloud goes den then your DB is SOL.

]]> By: Marc http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-14320 Marc Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:45:08 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-14320 Nobody is mentioning the fact that with EC2 there is no immutable storage for your database. You literally have to hack together a backup/sync/recovery routine into and out of S3 or somewhere else. If your EC2 instance goes down, highly likely if you get enough traffic, or, if Amazon's cloud goes den then your DB is SOL. Nobody is mentioning the fact that with EC2 there is no immutable storage for your database. You literally have to hack together a backup/sync/recovery routine into and out of S3 or somewhere else. If your EC2 instance goes down, highly likely if you get enough traffic, or, if Amazon's cloud goes den then your DB is SOL.

]]> By: Ben Sharpe http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-6841 Ben Sharpe Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:03:12 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-6841 We tried EC2 back in Nov. and Joyent's free facebook account servers were significantly faster. Joyent's direct peering with FB's network makes a huge difference. If this partnership with Amazon leads to the same peering arrangement -- it could be a nice alternative. We tried EC2 back in Nov. and Joyent’s free facebook account servers were significantly faster. Joyent’s direct peering with FB’s network makes a huge difference. If this partnership with Amazon leads to the same peering arrangement — it could be a nice alternative.

]]> By: Ben Sharpe http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-14319 Ben Sharpe Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:03:12 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-14319 We tried EC2 back in Nov. and Joyent's free facebook account servers were significantly faster. Joyent's direct peering with FB's network makes a huge difference. If this partnership with Amazon leads to the same peering arrangement -- it could be a nice alternative. We tried EC2 back in Nov. and Joyent's free facebook account servers were significantly faster. Joyent's direct peering with FB's network makes a huge difference. If this partnership with Amazon leads to the same peering arrangement — it could be a nice alternative.

]]> By: David R. Strachan http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-6834 David R. Strachan Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:01:52 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-6834 There's Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric. There’s Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric.

]]> By: David R. Strachan http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-14318 David R. Strachan Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:01:52 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-announces-amazon-partnership/#comment-14318 There's Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric. There's Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric.

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