Comments on: Pretty Clouds http://www.derekmartin.ca/2008/12/04/pretty-clouds/ web development, spirituality, UFOs & the occult Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:30:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Zakir http://www.derekmartin.ca/2008/12/04/pretty-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Zakir Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:45:55 +0000 http://www.derekmartin.ca/?p=41#comment-84 You're right, we have split the application and db into two servers... and yes, it was really easy. If you're looking for other cheep grid hosting solutions, Slicehost (recently acquired by Rackspace) is awesome.. http://www.slicehost.com/ I'll be using them for my personal projects. You’re right, we have split the application and db into two servers… and yes, it was really easy.

If you’re looking for other cheep grid hosting solutions, Slicehost (recently acquired by Rackspace) is awesome..

http://www.slicehost.com/

I’ll be using them for my personal projects.

]]> By: Derek http://www.derekmartin.ca/2008/12/04/pretty-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Derek Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:38:33 +0000 http://www.derekmartin.ca/?p=41#comment-83 Oh man, Tom... sounds like you got burned pretty bad. I hope that's not the cast... Indeed, I have been burned by personal data loss before, and I guess I should really look into their back-up strategy (non-existent?), or implementing our own. Maybe we can upload to Nirvanix, and transcode there, but then transfer it to S3 for long-term storage & public delivery. Also, Tom, the email address you used for this comment is now "undeliverable". Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (your_email_here@yahoo.com) [-5] - mta160.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [BODY] Oh man, Tom… sounds like you got burned pretty bad. I hope that’s not the cast…

Indeed, I have been burned by personal data loss before, and I guess I should really look into their back-up strategy (non-existent?), or implementing our own.

Maybe we can upload to Nirvanix, and transcode there, but then transfer it to S3 for long-term storage & public delivery.

Also, Tom, the email address you used for this comment is now “undeliverable”. Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn’t have a yahoo.com account (your_email_here@yahoo.com) [-5] – mta160.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [BODY]

]]> By: Tom Bassett http://www.derekmartin.ca/2008/12/04/pretty-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Tom Bassett Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.derekmartin.ca/?p=41#comment-82 At a high level, you are correct on Nirvanix vs Amazon S3. But before you marry them, ask them about their availability, if they have ever met their own SLA, and if they've lost 8,000 customer files recently (as in gone). Good Luck. At a high level, you are correct on Nirvanix vs Amazon S3. But before you marry them, ask them about their availability, if they have ever met their own SLA, and if they’ve lost 8,000 customer files recently (as in gone). Good Luck.

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