Re: current thinking on Amazon EC2?

From: Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com>
To: "Welty, Richard" <rwelty(at)ltionline(dot)com>
Cc: Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: current thinking on Amazon EC2?
Date: 2012-03-19 20:39:03
Message-ID: CABs1bs3Y5v8eucaefzZd9ZHdUaMcihzuAsJmqwM1sOtLw+OyUg@mail.gmail.com
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> On Mon 3/19/2012 4:30 PM Mike Christensen writes:
>
>>I've been running my site on RackSpace CloudServers (similar to EC2)
>>and have been getting pretty good performance, though I don't have
>>huge amounts of database load.
>
>>One advantage, though, is RackSpace allows for hybrid solutions so I
>>could potentially lease a dedicated server and continue to host my web
>>frontend servers on the cloud.
>
> that's good to know, although for the project i'm working on, EC2 is
> what we have to work with, good parts and bad parts and all.

I know Heroku is built on EC2 and runs Postgres, so I would assume
they've got it set up to get pretty good performance..

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