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Is it a little stormy out there?
May 6, 2011A recent story in many North American newspapers (including the National Post in Toronto) highlighted a growing problem with web sites hosted in “the cloud”. The story is shown below (in its entirety), followed by our comments.
The story:
Technical 'hiccup' downs social networking sites that use the 'cloud'
Reuters - Apr. 26, 2011 - Disruption to Amazon.com Inc. servers that host Internet services took down a raft of social networking websites including Foursquare and Quora on April 21, underscoring concerns about reliability as more companies turn to the "cloud." Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, part of the online retail company's cloud-computing service that hosts websites for startups, experienced latency problems, Amazon's status page reported. The company said it was dealing with capacity issues. Foursquare, a service that lets users broadcast their locations, said: "Our usually amazing data centre hosts, Amazon EC2, are having a few hiccups this morning." Although experts have warned of security and reliability issues, Internet startups are increasingly seeking to outsource web-hosting to hold costs down. Others rely on the cloud to host services.
So, what’s up? Is it raining in the cloud? Apparently so. Maybe companies (including start-ups) and some larger companies are using Amazon, GoDaddy and other mass hosting corporations for hosting and related services. While the price may be cheap, you do get what you pay for. At Digital Internet Group we only host our own clients. That allows us to provide the personalized services and the response you need when your web site is a critical part of your business.
P.S. These “hiccups” are not only related to social networking sites. Any site hosted at Amazon suffered the same fate. The Amazon servers can’t tell whether your site is social networking, e-commerce, or for another purpose.
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