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Cluster web hosting for everybody
With virtualization technology and services like EC2 (aws.amazon.com) the cost of building clusters is going down.
In the past 3 months we have put serious R&D work to find a solution for startups and SMB that need very reliable hosting.
The concept is to get the 5 nines (99.999) availability for any web application at an affordable price.
A 99.999% availability would cost about $250,000 for a dozen servers, a solid storage array dual load balancers, software and a lot of hard work.
To handle high load pick additional servers are needed but most of the time unused increasing again the operating cost.
This can't work for a small business or a startup.
So we will offer for a monthly fee to do all the setup and maintenance work using Amazon EC2 and S3 platforms.
We will take our customers' web applications load them in a database cluster and a web server cluster.
This product is perfect for SME or SMB that needs (5 nines) %99.999 availability or a young startup waiting to take off.
If your interested contact us.
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2 response(s) to Cluster web hosting for everybody
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gary [Visitor] @ http://realify.com/~gary/ says:
2008-03-19 @ 15:34hey philippe. hope everything is going well! speaking of five nines, joel spolsky had a good article about this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/22.html. also, last i heard amazon ec2 didn't have an sla of its own. how can you provide a reliable service based on amazon's technology if ec2 goes down for a few hours?
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philippe [Member] @ http://www.sqlfusion.com/v2/blogs/phil.php says:
2008-03-20 @ 10:14Good point,
I wrote this post a few days before S3 went down.
Good article, I've seen those 100% uptime guaranty with minimal penalties it tend to confuse customers on the reality of application hosting.
When I mean fine nine its a goal for our R&D project and I expect to deliver it to our customers.
If from our R&D we see its not possible to provide low cost cluster hosting with high availability we will not offer it.
We have back down a bit on ec2, in our first round of tests we had 4 nodes mysql cluster and 2 node apache totally on ec2.
Technically it worked great.
It was hard to guaranty of the five nines as it 100% rely on Amazon.
Also the VM kernels on Amazon are strip out of all IP nat/forwarding module. Making it hard to setup load balancing within the different EC2 clusters.
Now we are preparing a second test where the base clusters are in our own servers and the scaling and high cpu processing will be done on EC2.
What we are looking to test is latency and selection of high cpu tasks.
I'll send a post with the results.
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