Everyone with a Twitter account is familiar with their availability issues. According to Twitter it’s just another case of bad hosting. Web frameworks like the ones used by Twitter(Rails) are very demanding and costly to scale. On demand infrastructure is becoming a very important factor for startup success, and a barrier to entry for new [...]
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Hosting gone bad: EVERYWHERE!!!
Signs of economic recession are hitting everywhere….even hosting services. It’s been a tough year for hosting provider. A lot of them have suffered from bad PR in different areas:
Rackspace: If last year’s catastrophe wasn’t enough, another one of Rackspace big named customer(37signals) suffered a two hour outage because of a bad load balancer.
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Digg part of hosting marketing
When people use your companies’ products to market theirs, you know you’re in business. Digg has become a huge phenomenon to the point that hosting companies actually state in their marketing material that you won’t get burned if you get a “Digg Effect” while hosting with them.
MediaTemple on their Grid Service (MySQL Burst Container):
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