Re:Fuck the Cloud (2009)
by rsync on Monday December 21, 2015 @08:39PM
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"Nonsense. It's very easy to have that kind of setup fail - remove one from the load balancer"
I'm sorry - you're already missing the point.
There is no load balancer. There's no firewall. There's no services running except for sshd.
I guess I should qualify what I mean by "better", though. What I mean is, "I know exactly how this will fail and it won't be interesting or surprising. Or take any thought or time to fix."
It will be comprehensible. "FreeBSD on a basic AWS setup - four EC2 nodes (multiple AZs), and an ELB" is not. You have no idea (nor do I, nor do probably most folks at Amazon) the different and fascinating ways that will fail.
(disclosure: we use EC2 instances for backup DNS. We are not anti cloud or anti amazon)
Re:Fuck the Cloud (2009)
by lmm on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:38AM
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If there's no load balancer then is the second machine just a warm spare? Do you get paged to get up and reconfigure things when the first one fails in the middle of the night?
I'm sorry - you're already missing the point.
There is no load balancer. There's no firewall. There's no services running except for sshd.
I guess I should qualify what I mean by "better", though. What I mean is, "I know exactly how this will fail and it won't be interesting or surprising. Or take any thought or time to fix."
It will be comprehensible. "FreeBSD on a basic AWS setup - four EC2 nodes (multiple AZs), and an ELB" is not. You have no idea (nor do I, nor do probably most folks at Amazon) the different and fascinating ways that will fail.
(disclosure: we use EC2 instances for backup DNS. We are not anti cloud or anti amazon)