Re: WO and Clouds

2008-06-04 Thread John Bruce
I think it depends on what is meant by cloud computing. There is such a wide range of different providers out there and all offering the promise of instant scalability. I've looked into this a various times over the last year and there's something that doesn't sit right with me about Amazon WS as a

Re: WO and Clouds

2008-06-04 Thread John Bruce
I think it depends on what is meant by cloud computing. There is such a wide range of different providers out there and all offering the promise of instant scalability. I've looked into this a various times over the last year and there's something that doesn't sit right with me about Amazon WS as a

Re: WO and Clouds

2008-06-04 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! Both work on top of Amazon service, which means both have very poor storage performance and reliability (IMO). The comments I did some weeks ago on WO-Deploy list about the cloud stuff apply. About the "is it possible" part, I don't see why not, using the Amazon service directly.

Re: WO and Clouds

2008-06-04 Thread Andrus Adamchik
I am at a planning stage of a cloud-like in-house setup, so I'd also like to hear real-life cloud experience stories (maybe we don't need to be in-house). My biggest concern with third-party hosting so far is that it is rather new and you have no idea what pitfalls to expect, and how well t

WO and Clouds

2008-06-04 Thread Alex Cone
Here's a new for the "deploying WO on an unusual platform" discussions... Has anyone ever deployed a WO app on a cloud computing platform? I'm looking at Morph AppSpace for Java (http://www.mor.ph/java/) or cloudtools (http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/)... Seems like a "roll all framewo