[Gllug] Anyone used Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud (grid computing type thingy)?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:00:31AM +0100, Harry wrote:
> > That's not really the same thing as Amazon's EC2. Its just another virtual
> > hosting provider - the on-demand grid thing they offer is only for virtual
> > hosting of websites not dedicated servers... (snip)
> 
> Thanks Dan, for elaborating on how EC2 differs from other virtual hosting
> solutions.
> 
> > Simiarly if you expect a /.'ing you can ramp up your application server / web
> > farm for 1 day & then cut it back down to normal size after the rush has gone.
> > Normal virtual hosting models just don't offer this kind of on-demand scaling,
> 
> Note, however, that the blurb at Mediatemple's site does say...
> 
> <quote>
> The Grid's on-demand scalability means you'll always be ready for intense
> bursts of traffic and the growing audience resulting from your online
> success.
> </quote>

Yes, I saw that, however, from what I can gather on from their website
'The Grid' is just an apache/php website hosting service - you don't
get a cluster of general purpose virtual machines for your own use.

Regards,
Dan.
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