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Oops, sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
Also, if you change the first line of http://wblinks.com/css/style.css to @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans:400,700); you should notice an improvement in the boldface font rendering. Great article, btw.
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As someone who has worked w/ AWS (and Rackspace) for several years with multiple startups... Unless they have dramatically improved their offering in the last couple years, an hour or two from "I need a new server" to delivery is 1) not an accurate timeframe for physical servers from Rackspace and 2) even if it was realistic, that's an eternity when you are trying to iterate quickly. I can have a new server in 30 sec…
DigitalOcean - Same or better speed, 1/6 or less of the price of ECC.
For some businesses, the huge AWS feature set (RDS, EBS, ELB, security groups, VPC, ELB, EIPs, etc, etc, etc) is more valuable than the bottom $$ line. For others, those features aren't worth the added cost, but hand-wavey "just use DO" or "Just rent physical servers from SoftLayer/Rackspace" is disingenous.
TL;DR AWS has value above and beyond simply hour-to-hour elasticity.
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Also, if you change the first line of http://wblinks.com/css/style.css to @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans:400,700); you should notice an improvement in the boldface font rendering. Great article, btw.
OT, but how does this work? Why does it improve rendering? Is it downloading both the normal and bold weight rather than only one leaving the browser to do the rest?
I'd also add to the list - make sure that AWS is right for your workload. If you don't have an elastic workload and are keeping all of your servers online 24/7, then you should investigate dedicated hardware from another provider. AWS really only makes sense ($$) when you can take advantage of the ability to spin up and spin down your instances as needed.
AWS != EC2. Do not assume that AWS is only used as VMs. It's different for everyone but AWS provides massive savings for many companies. It makes sense for many use cases in addition to elastic workloads.
I can see a lot of benefit to using S3 without EC2, but after that, I'm not sure what else would be possible. Care to elaborate more?
Can you use their queues and database tools w/o using EC2? (If you are using a VPC, maybe?)
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They don't have to make any purchasing decisions. They can rent servers from companies like Softlayer and Rackspace (#3 and #4 behind AWS for YC startups), or spin up much cheaper VPS's (Linode's #2). We're talking $120/month commitments, not buying hardware and driving to a data center to install it. Deploying to a freshly imaged physical server is the same as deploying to EC2, and they can be provisioned for you in…
As someone who has worked w/ AWS (and Rackspace) for several years with multiple startups... Unless they have dramatically improved their offering in the last couple years, an hour or two from "I need a new server" to delivery is 1) not an accurate timeframe for physical servers from Rackspace and 2) even if it was realistic, that's an eternity when you are trying to iterate quickly. I can have a new server in 30 sec…
I moved my last company completely off AWS and it was proven to be a great decision across a number of dimensions.
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AWS makes a lot of sense in a 24/7 environment, particularly when you are a new startup and don't have enough information (or capital!) to make educated server purchases.
> particularly when you are a new startup and don't have enough information (or capital!) to make educated server purchases. I doubt there are many founders who are technically informed enough to know about Amazon Web Services, but don't know about the other big 3 (Digital Ocean, Linode, Rackspace). If you truly don't, then you must not be a tech company, and I have a hard time believing a non-tech company without an…
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Oops, sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
Also, if you change the first line of http://wblinks.com/css/style.css to @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans:400,700); you should notice an improvement in the boldface font rendering. Great article, btw.