Chain Links #030
Posted: September 15th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: css, design, fun, rails, ruby | 2 Comments »I thought cloud computing was supposed to be the silver bullet for scalability. Now everybody wants to move to “real” servers. Me is confused.
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I assume your comment is in reference to GitHub’s announcement that they’re moving to Rackspace and “real” servers.
I had the same reaction. Kind of a weird statement (mixed in with what seems to be a list of cons for Engine Yard rather than just pros for Rackspace).
But I suppose the GitHub guys are tackling hardware I/O problems and performance issues the vast majority of web apps (especially any of mine) will never have to face.
At least I hope so, in order to calm my own cognitive dissonance.
Yeah, that announcement as well as a couple of others I’d seen recently – BoxedIce most notably:
http://blog.boxedice.com/2009/09/08/why-we-moved-away-from-the-cloud-to-a-real-server/
Maybe the issue is more about control + cost moreso than actual scalability?