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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend a Cloud host to us? by dstorrs on Saturday October 10, 2009 @10:43PM (#874234)
I haven't used Amazon myself, but a good friend of mine has done quite a bit with it. When I asked him about it, he said (IIRC) that one thing to be aware of what that you couldn't run a MySQL DB on one of their small instances--you needed a large instance. So, something to keep in mind.

(Please do verify this--I may have misremembered or the facts may have changed since I heard this.)

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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend a Cloud host to us? by dstorrs on Sunday October 11, 2009 @01:51PM (#874976)
So that I know how to improve my comments in the future, why was this downvoted?

It's an important thing to know, and I admitted up front that it was second-hand knowledge with some uncertainty about it. Was the issue the second-hand knowledge, the lack of complete certainty, or what?

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