Re: Amazon EC2 | Any recent developments

From: Just Someone <just(dot)some(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: David Kerr <dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Amazon EC2 | Any recent developments
Date: 2009-06-16 18:30:49
Message-ID: 36932f270906161130q2a8fb39sa4ca38dc175b1fa6@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Greg Smith<gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:

> You just have to recognize that the volumes are
> statistically pretty fragile compared to a traditional RAID configuration on
> dedicated hardware and plan accordingly.

I agree completely. I think the advantage is that it FORCES you to
plan for failure. Now, I know we all SHOULD plan for failure, but I
also know how many do not...

Bye,

Guy.

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My development related blog: http://devblog.famundo.com

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