On Aug 6, 2008, at 4:20 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
A few days ago, there was a discussion of an alternative (GoGrid) to Amazon offering a load balancing capability (which I presumed to be) missing in AWS.
Oh I wouldn't say that it's missing... all one needs for load balancing is a Linux machine... and hey EC2 is in the business of providing Linux machines. :) It's just that they don't have an explicit pre-configured load balancing service, you have to roll your own... hence the web page you linked.
The advantage is flexibility - pick your favorite method of doing HA and implement it. The disadvantage is that your load balancer is another running machine instance for which you're being billed.
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