Deployment Zone - Latest Comments

Re: SharePoint, WebDAV, and http (not https)

Dorothy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:02:19 -0000

Really great info!!!! And very clear instructions. You're the best!!

Re: Trying out SyntaxHighligher and PreCode

peteblair — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:27:09 -0000

That is pretty cool Chuck.

Re: Deployment Zone Three Hunters Three Quarters

cfeduke — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:43:20 -0000

Yes except the rare earth magnet holds him in place even if the base is held upside down!

Re: Deployment Zone Three Hunters Three Quarters

Zel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:14:07 -0000

I believe your Dwarf is a little drunk and going to fall down.

Re: IDictionary<TKey,TValue>, IXmlSerializable, and lambdas

hamsterlegs — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:08:32 -0000

Very good!

Re: Grid Computing: Amazon EC2, Mosso, GoGrid

cfeduke — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:16:31 -0000

Glad you found this info useful. We had to move off of GoGrid because we were trying to host a production software on a beta platform (one night all our Linux images mounted as RO and we use file system caching which means we delivered out of date content for a couple days). I do think they offer the best bang for your buck though.

Re: Grid Computing: Amazon EC2, Mosso, GoGrid

Jonathan Marcus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:07:36 -0000

Thanks for the very helpful analysis. I am trying to choose a cloud hosting provider: while I'm finding that while nobody has gotten it perfect yet, I agree that GoGrid is doing an excellent job.

To me, the lack of persistent storage with EC2 is an absolute deal-breaker. (Yes, I know you can use their Elastic Block Store to handle this, but that means that all of your hard disk operations occur over the network, and that's freaking slow).

Mosso is a nice idea (being able to run PHP and ASP side-by-side is really cool) but if you have custom applications that need to be running constantly (as I do), the lack of root access is, again, a deal-breaker.

I've just started GoGrid, and I hope that I can get everything working. The GUI is nice, and I was able to get everything up and running quite quickly. My biggest gripes are 1) the inability to change machine settings after creation (once you've made a 1GB server, you can't up it to 2GB), and 2) the inability to clone machine instances, which will make it more difficult to scale up. Nonetheless, it looks like the best overall service, with the most upside.

Re: Using Disqus

cfeduke — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:23:47 -0000

And my first Disqus comment on my blog - just to try it out.