Today, Facebook announced a partnership with Amazon to provide instant scalable solutions to Facebook application developers. The new partnership appears to be nothing more than a marketing agreement. In addition to receiving scalable solutions, developers also have access to tutorials and preloaded S3 files that make it easy for them to learn how to integrate with the new services.
The primary scalable solutions competitor in the market right now is Joyent who is currently offering free hosting for applicaition developers. This is in hopes that once their application grows beyond a certain size they will upgrade to a premium service. Aside from that there are few options for scalable solutions and instead developers must opt for traditional hosting resources and scale as needed.
When a Facebook application gains significant traction it can be challenging for developers to rapidly adapt and shift hosting resources while also making improvements to their application. As a result, Amazon’s S3 service combined with their EC2 service provide an excellent solution so developers can focus on application development rather then be concerned with the issue of overloading their servers.
Have you found any other scalable hosting solutions for your applications?
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There's Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric.
Comment by David R. Strachan — January 25, 2008 @ 6:01 am
There's Rackspace too, but clearly Joyent is Facebook-centric.
Comment by David R. Strachan — January 25, 2008 @ 7:01 am
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.
Comment by Ben Sharpe — January 25, 2008 @ 7:03 am
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.
Comment by Ben Sharpe — January 25, 2008 @ 8:03 am
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.
Comment by Marc — January 27, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
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.
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