Not having to worry about 'what if my server dies' is quite nice.

You still have to worry about that though. What if process X crashes? What if the data centre fails. What if the data centre has an outage and loses all your data (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/10/02/amazon-ec2-outage-wipes-out-data/)

It just encourages people to be complacent because it becomes someone elses problem and because since they're paying for it to be managed for them they're assuming nothing can go wrong.

-Steve



On 5 July 2011 17:17, Chris Hemmings <chris@cheeky.org> wrote:
I must admit I'm a bit of a Cloud/VM fan.  The thought of not having to think about the actual hardware you are running on is quite liberating.

Not having to worry about 'what if my server dies' is quite nice.

Creating a quick instance based on the one I'm currently running to test something and not be tied into a X month contract.

Adding/Removing capacity to my VM as and when I want to.

Chris

On 5 July 2011 17:03, Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org> wrote:
Its not specifically that easy, however keep in mind, that a $100 Dedicated server, on reasonable bandwidth will probably handle more traffic then you can imagine...




On 7/5/11 10:52 AM, "Sanjay Arora" <sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org> wrote:
For $175 you can easily rent a full Dedicated Server w/ money left Over...

Heck for $200 I’ll rent you 2 dedicated servers

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind ;-)

But is scaling to a higher server as easy as it would be in Amazon...just boot up in a higher instance....or am I deluding myself?

Sanjay.

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