In this edition of Citizen Garden podcast, Chris Messina and Larry Halff talk about the Magnolia data loss and how they could have avoided such a disaster. Check out the video here.
Citizen Garden Episode 11: Whither Ma.gnolia? from Larry Halff on Vimeo.
Chris Messina clearly identifies how Ma.gnolia could have avoided this.
Today, with services like Amazon S3 & EC2, Joyent Accelerators and Google AppEngine,
reliable, scalable hosting is no longer as much a problem, as these
services have risen to meet the needs of applications like Ma.gnolia.
But these are services that Larry did not take complete advantage of
and the burden of taking care of over half a terabyte of data eventually caught up with him.
reliable, scalable hosting is no longer as much a problem, as these
services have risen to meet the needs of applications like Ma.gnolia.
But these are services that Larry did not take complete advantage of
and the burden of taking care of over half a terabyte of data eventually caught up with him.
This is what we keep highlighting in this space. The Cloud Computing has arrived and it only makes business sense to adopt it irrespective of if your business is one man show or an enterprise. Kudos to Larry Halff for openly discussing about their debacle. There are valuable business lessons to be learnt from the disaster.
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[..] This also opens the doors to some innovative uses of the technology. For example, while cloud computing may be all the rage, gigabit speeds combined with unlimited bandwidth make it possible for people to host their own websites right out of their home. People could run websites on those spare Mac Minis they have, rather than pay Amazon’s $60/month fee for a small EC2 instance, that. (That said, it also opens the door to someepic fails in self-hosting) [..]
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