Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by kazen44 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:32AM
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Heck,
old colleagues of mine have been doing "dedicated/shared hosting" for the better part of nearly 25 years.
virtual private servers have existed for 20 decades+.
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by vasco on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:45AM
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I think 20 decades might be a bit of an exaggeration.
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by breck on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:37AM
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No I actually remember reading a letter Lovelace wrote to Babbage about problems with chroot
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by Misteur-Z on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:12AM
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IBM mainframes virtual machines saying hello => "It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/VM
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by krallja on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:29AM
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20 decades ago would be 1821 A.D., four decades before the First American Civil War.
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by kazen44 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:59AM
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ofcourse you are right,
i meant 2 decades :)
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by throwaway20148 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:15AM
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That’s what the CIA would have you believe.
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:28PM
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The biggest thing that AWS offered in the beginning was extreme proximity to the backbone. Their services have grown by the dozens, and other hosting services have followed suit, but they remain (as far as I know) one of the closest points [ EDIT: without co-location ] you can put a VM to the backbone.
RackShack and other companies offered pretty cheap (started at $99/month IIRC) dedicated Linux servers which loads of startups used before AWS. There was also various virtual machine providers in the market.
These articles make it sound like every company before AWS had to build their own datacenter or at least buy a million dollars worth of Sun hardware to put a website online.