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Did they suffer a reboot during that migration, or was it done via some live-migration process (it's hard to live-migrate off a virtualization platform that was never designed with that in mind!).
What about the original network setup? Is that still emulated, or might some customer applications have broken?
I still remember when I worked at Serif and we needed web hosting for our new social media website that would be integrated into our scrapbooking desktop software. There were a lot of shiny new technologies around at the time (as there always are). One of them was Microsoft Silverlight, and we implemented its "Deep Zoom" into the website so our users could easily zoom around in the scrapbooks that got published and e…
I remember those days, there was no database layer at AWS so we used instances with Elastic Block store for durability.
This is something Google Cloud should learn from. It doesn't matter if product XX still makes money or fits in your business model. There are people who rely on it. And they'll remember if the vendor kept it running trouble free for years. They'll also remember if it was arbitrarily shut down or the price was suddenly increased by 4x and they had to spend many man hours migrating to another option. (Google maps api?)…
That's a good point. But I am curious how special this Classic offering was, compared to what came after. Would migration have been hard?
So if I'm understanding correctly, all the classic instances were migrated to more modern types with no intervention from the account holder? Did they suffer a reboot during that migration, or was it done via some live-migration process (it's hard to live-migrate off a virtualization platform that was never designed with that in mind!). What about the original network setup? Is that still emulated, or might some cust…
But they gave people YEARS to do that, and tracked down every user to help them if necessary.
This is why businesses trust AWS.
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Google Reader. Never forget.
I miss Google Search being good and useful and not covered in intrusive ads much more than I miss something easily replaced with local software or Feedly. Almost everything Google does outside of GCP, Maps, Search, and YouTube could evaporate for all I care. Google's problem is not that they cancel stuff, it's the everpresent need to grow revenue and embed annoying ads into more and more of everyone's daily lives. I'…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google Reader. Never forget.
I miss Google Search being good and useful and not covered in intrusive ads much more than I miss something easily replaced with local software or Feedly. Almost everything Google does outside of GCP, Maps, Search, and YouTube could evaporate for all I care. Google's problem is not that they cancel stuff, it's the everpresent need to grow revenue and embed annoying ads into more and more of everyone's daily lives. I'…
So if I'm understanding correctly, all the classic instances were migrated to more modern types with no intervention from the account holder? Did they suffer a reboot during that migration, or was it done via some live-migration process (it's hard to live-migrate off a virtualization platform that was never designed with that in mind!). What about the original network setup? Is that still emulated, or might some cust…
Would be very interesting to learn how that was possible, it seems surprising to me that there wasn't even one instance that the owner forgot about or just was unwilling to do any work on.
It's possible that credit card expiration was the key, as that may have automatically disabled almost all forgotten accounts.
And they kept this running for a decade after people agreed there were much better options with an announced 2 year sunset period.