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Amazon Web Services(AWS) Finally Offers Persistent Storage(Elastic Block Store)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:29:19 -0700

Today, Amazon announces Elastic Block Store(EBS). This is the final missing piece in their cloud computing offering.

RightScale wrote two very good blogs explaining EBS:

Clearly, RightScale has been testing EBS for quite a while prior ASW announced persistent storage support back in Apri.

Switched Hosting Provider: Site5 ==> Dreamhost

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:02:25 -0800

I migrated the hosting provider of this site from Site5.com to DreamHost on Fri. The migration went through rather smoothly. I did a test first on running my blog on DreamHost first. I imported the DB and copied over my Drupal installation. Everything worked fine. Then I updated my domain to point to Dreamhost's DNS servers and turned on my blogging site on DreamHost. Meanwhile, I've kept my blog site running on site5.com because the DNS server update can take up to 48 hours to propagate.

I did have problems with the switch:

Tags: site5 hosting dreamhost

Netfirms Advantage Hosting = Unreliable

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:07:18 -0800

I mentioned about Netfirms' $10 Advantage plan here.

I signed up for this deal 2 weeks ago and test-drove their service. I am not satisfied at all.

When I tried to import a 6mb MySQL database, it took forever because the MySQL server was down. It constantly tried to reconnect.

I hosted a PHP-based gallery there. When I tried to upload more than 5 pictures(each is about 100-200kb in size), it gave me some apache errors. I think this is because they really limited the memory usage.

My advice is not to host anything serious with this kind of hosting plan from Netfirms.

Tags: hosting netfirms

Contract with Site5 is Almost Up. Move to Private Sharing Hosting?

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:17:12 -0800

My prepaid 1-year hosting service with Site5 is going to expire near the end of this month.

I've been very satisfied with Site5. I haven't experienced any problem. Their support is very responsive. Whenever I email about a question/issue, they respond within 30 minutes.

But Netfirms has a $10 for one year promotion going on. It seems very attractive from a pricing point. Currently, I am paying site5 $6.95/month ($83.40/year) for 5gb space. I'll need to research more on Netfirms.

Hosting on a virtual private server (eg. Linode has always been in my mind. But I don't think I really need it until I can free up my time and my mind to develop some interesting web applications to run on that kind of environment. It’s not cheap.

Tags: site5 hosting