I heard the hard drive is mounted on a directory, so, if the machine reboots, the directory will be gone and you have to mount it again. Anyway, not something of local hard drive. So, not a good stable configuration for hosting.
I guess there is no such thing as cheaper, faster and better. Amazon's EC2 is on the cheaper side, but suffers better ;-) Cheers, Jian On Dec 26, 2007 2:59 AM, Daniel Naber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, v k wrote: > > > The lack of persistent storage in EC2 meant that I would have to back > > up the index, code and configuration data all the time, as reboots > > in EC2 cause complete data loss. > > Is that really the case? To my understanding, it's just that there are no > guarantees that the data is safe, just like with a single server where > your hard disk may crash. > > Regards > Daniel > > -- > http://www.danielnaber.de >
