No Issue its just different.  Ie you can just install SQL server, put data
in the database, shut down the instance fire it back up again the next day
and expect the data to be there.

At rackspace it does work like this however.

Paul.


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.man...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, you can use RDS or Oracle offerings.
>
> But if you have an EBS based AMI, what is the issue there? It's persistent
> between restarts in my experience (I tend to only host websites on them, not
> DBs)
>
> I rebooted our stage server yesterday, and it came back just fine with
> everything on it.
>
> So....? Colour me confused?
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Paul Kukiel <kuki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sure but its not just simply setup and your database is persistent you
>> need to offload to EBS at intervals or snap shot the instance.  Where as
>> rackspace is more like a typical VPS/colo machine just in an
>> elastic environment.
>>
>> I'm just saying this is something to consider when making the move
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.man...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Amazon doesn't lose your data on restart if you use EBS...
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Paul Kukiel <kuki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve Take a look at Rackspace cloud options.  I've been looking at them
>>>> and chatting with Phil and they are also really good value for money and
>>>> they don't loose your data like Amazon do upon restart.
>>>
>>>
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