Cloud Computing
In the aftermath of Intermedia’s extended outage, an important lesson to be learned for SAS providers
As a current (and reasonably long time) customer of SAS Exchange hosting provider Intermedia.com, we at OleOle were naturally affected to some extent by Intermedia’s extended system outage on March 5th, 2010. For pretty much the entire morning on that day, we, along with thousands of their other customers, had zero email capability, no sending, [...]
Surprise! Not all Amazon EC2 compute units are created equal
A very interesting discovery made by our sys admin not so long ago: While Amazon EC2 sells its hosting services on the notion of leasing virtualized servers with a guaranteed amount of standard compute units, memory and disk space, it turns out that in fact, not all EC2 compute units are created equal. In other [...]
Amazon, oh Amazon, You Continue to Disappoint Me
Following Amazon’s EC2 recently reaching capacity at certain EC2 zones, I now shake my head in dismay at what to me, is another poor showing by a service that I would love to love, if only they would let me! So today we get an email from them soliciting feedback to their SimpleDB service, which [...]
Twitter Doc Theft – Details Revealed: Step By Step To How It Was Done
TechCrunch posted a great step by step account this morning that details almost exactly how Frenchman Hacker Croll (HC) was able to steal over 300 sensitive Twitter corporate docs, as well as gain access to numerous online accounts of several Twitter employees. It’s a long article, but very interesting and if you have any interest [...]
Cloud Computing – Amazon EC2 Zone Reaches Capacity
I’m planning to write a series of posts documenting in detail the experiences that we have had at OleOle migrating our entire website infrastructure from a traditional managed hosting company to Amazon’s Cloud Computing services (EC2, S3, etc.). This was a process we began scoping out at the beginning of ’09 and actually completed just [...]
