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Re: Amazon Responsible for Huge Site Outages

ElasticHosts cloud servers — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:25:09 -0000

For all customers affected by EC2 downtime, I would like to recommend ElasticHosts as an alternative cloud service (www.elastichosts.com) - we offer a 5 day free trial for our cloud servers in US or UK, which is likely enough at least to bridge the gap.

Re: "Follow the law" computing

ElasticHosts cloud servers — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:49:44 -0000

This is a very real issue, and the Patriot Act is not the only constraint. To protect EU citizens, the EU Directive on the protection of personal data forbids such data to be transferred outside the EU in many circumstances. At ElasticHosts (a UK-based cloud infrastructure provider), we believe under current legislation the solution for many customers must be to host in their own jurisdiction.

Re: Why cloud computing doesn't get us out of the woods yet...

ElasticHosts cloud servers — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:55:33 -0000

James identifies a real issue, but I do not see the picture as bleak as he does. A user of a grid service such as ElasticHosts or the others has two fallbacks:

1) For the initial response to the spike, the user can indeed set up with "warm" capacity - and this works very well in a cloud computing environment. e.g. they can size their virtual servers for large CPU/RAM with a low base utilization - while they have low usage the hypervisor will share capacity with other VMs, but it is instantly available when the spike hits.

2) Although the spike hits instantly, the higher level of traffic lasts for hours afterwards. With a good monitoring and a good cloud vendor, the user will be aware and able to provision additional capacity within the first hour. This doesn't tackle the initial part of the spike (handled above), but does mean that many of the NYT/Digg readers will actually get a great experience when they arrive later in the day.