Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 09, 2010 @09:51AM
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The "failed dream" been successfull but never for long. As disk bandwidth and network bandwidth increase irregularly and leapfrog one another, it goes in and out of fashion.
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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by eru on Friday September 10, 2010 @10:48AM
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Yes, but network bandwith (and latency) may become cheaper than local maintenance one day.
Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by JoeAltmaier on Friday September 10, 2010 @11:22AM
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The user experience is a very sensitive variable. "Cheaper" matters to Enterprise folks but lag will make the rest of us pay a little more.
In fact local maintenance is the driving force behind web apps already. They generally lag like a mother, have lame controls and update in whole-page flashes, but I see more every day.