On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Joshua Penix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Bob La Quey wrote: > >> Also I am not certain why I am supposed to care what other services, >> bots and spammers, Amazon hosts. You might care to elaborate. You >> might as well say, don't use the net, it is full of bots and spammers. >> >> BobLQ "This could be the start of an useful dialog. Or not." > > You would only care that a good portion of Amazon's EC2 address space has > been blacklisted due to the spam problem. But if you're just hosting media, > and not sending email, then it's probably a non-issue.
It is a non-issue for me. I am curious though. What are authoritative sources for "blacklisted due to the spam problem?" I do not follow this problem so I do not know. > There is one other company offering something very similar to what Amazon > does that's worth a look for anyone considering utility computing: > > http://www.gogrid.com/ > > The two key features GoGrid claims over AWS are 1) Windows available as > guest OS; 2) free use of F5 load balancer (on AWS you have to build your > own). I could not care less about Windows hosting. http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html How big a deal is it to setup a load balancer? I have never done it so I really do not know. Once any site begins to get a lot of hits won't it need a load balancer? > If neither of those are useful to your situation, then I think Amazon's > pricing works out better. OK. > Also if you're writing in Django, Google's AppEngine may possibly be useful > for you. Actually that is a different project. I just wondered how it might overlap with the video project. But yes, I see folks talking about how Django and Google Apps seem top have very similar architectures and code. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
