Sunset Lake Software - Comments for "Welcome from the Cloud" http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/09/07/welcome-cloud Comments for "Welcome from the Cloud" en I'm sure you've seen my other http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/09/07/welcome-cloud#comment-152 <p>I'm sure you've seen <a href="http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/09/13/running-drupal-website-amazon-ec2" rel="nofollow">my other post</a>, where I provide more detail on the setup and unique capabilities of the service.</p> <p>Performance and uptime has been excellent, far better than it was with Media Temple. I average around 500 hits per day, though, with a few traffic spikes to ~4000 hits per day, so I'm not really stressing the system much. The low latency on loads has been great, in any case.</p> <p>The snapshotting of the persistent storage has allowed me to clone my entire server in a couple minutes, test new code or tinker with the layout, and either terminate the clone or switch over the IP to make it the live server. This is incredibly helpful from a development perspective, and the incremental backups add a safety net that is very reassuring.</p> <p>Amazon just added a new web-based administration console that I've yet to try out, but I'd still like to take a stab at doing a Cocoa framework for talking to these services and wrapping that in a nice desktop and iPhone GUI. I just don't know when I'll have the time.</p> pubDate Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:14:22 +0000 dc:creator Brad Larson guid false comment 152 at http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com How is this working out for http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/09/07/welcome-cloud#comment-150 <p>How is this working out for you? I hear so much about cloud computing but I have not felt like taking the leap myself yet. Would you consider doing a update post on this matter?</p> pubDate Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:31:24 +0000 dc:creator Shannon Brown guid false comment 150 at http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com