By bloid
via blog.doloreslabs.com
Published: Jul 21 2008 / 11:49
Using Amazon’s S3 has about the same cost and complexity as hosting the images ourselves, but we had thought that the reliability of Amazon would be significantly higher. But that now seems wrong. Here’s a chart of this month’s FaceStat downtimes by cause:
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Comments
paul_houle replied ago:
"Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket carefully" isn't the worst strategy for building reliable systems.
killerweb replied ago:
Wow, looks like some people think services like S3 are complete solutions. Ever here of caching, tier caching or even pyramid caching. I mean come on now, if you used a database would it be the ONLY source for static files. Blame S3 all you want, but at the end of the day it's the failure of developers taking the easy route.
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