Is EC2 The Right Choice For Hosting Our Web Application?

Re:Is EC2 The Right Choice For Hosting Our Web Application? by brk on Monday July 28, 2008 @07:19AM (#258967)

Not knowing how much serverload 500 customers represents, it's hard to give an accurate answer.

Overall I haven't been very impressed with EC2, it still seems very experimental to me. For all of the hype about Amazons infrastructure EC2 has had absolutely embarrassing downtimes and outages.

IMO, people need to concentrate on the "E" in EC2, it's elastic and can snap back and bite you in the ass if you're not careful ;)

As a SaaS company, your uptime IS your company. This is doubly true during the early stages when you are trying to get customers to trust you and continue using your service. You HAVE to spend on your architecture, that doesn't have to mean your own private server farm, but you should get your initial webhosting from a company where that product is their primary business, not an experiment.

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Re:Is EC2 The Right Choice For Hosting Our Web Application? by LiveTimeCards on Monday July 28, 2008 @02:36PM (#259407)

Thanks guys.

Seems like a standard host might be a better solution than EC2. I have been looking at SliceHost. Any other recommendations?

I was thinking of buying two slices upfront. One since running the MySQL5 backend database and the other running Apache, PHP, SendMail, DNS.

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