Re: current thinking on Amazon EC2? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Christensen
Subject Re: current thinking on Amazon EC2?
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In response to Re: current thinking on Amazon EC2?  ("Welty, Richard" <rwelty@ltionline.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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