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Re: Cloud Computing Does Not Spell the End for Common Sense I.T. Management

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:26:37 -0000

You'd also be honest about the fact that you're a SmugMug goon - whether employed by them or not - and that you have financial interestes in SmugMug's well being. Respectable, but you're not being transparent so I'll be transparent for you.

Re: Cloud Computing Does Not Spell the End for Common Sense I.T. Management

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:22:48 -0000

Actually, I understand it better than you do, apparently. ;) SmugMug should have never hosted 335M photos relying exclusively on S3. Ever. Cost of doing business. Infrastructure should grow with the company. A smart company never waits until it's too late to invest in infrastructure.And Gosh, WordPress.com has done an amazing job with TONS of traffic and commodity hardware. Plus, Virtual Machines are cheap. What's the problem?Now, SmugMug is behind the 8-ball. If you understood I.T. Management, then you'd admit I was right. Because I am.

Re: Cloud Computing Does Not Spell the End for Common Sense I.T. Management

Frankie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:16:36 -0000

It's been said before, but different services have very different costs associated with them. It's easy for an outsider to simply say there should never be a single point of failure, but it's really a balance of cost, risk, and reward. You bag on Smugmug, but take a step back and think about their problem. They have 335 million photos and store the original size in addition to 8 display sizes. Is it worth it for them to pay millions of dollars per year for storage that gets used for a few hours during that year?Twitter, quite honestly, has enough outages of their own that keeping S3 as a single point of failure for their images is probably a relatively safe bet.Maybe you don't understand the "web world" as well as you think?

Re: Cloud Computing Does Not Spell the End for Common Sense I.T. Management

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:26:37 -0000

Re: Cloud Computing Does Not Spell the End for Common Sense I.T. Management

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:22:48 -0000

And Gosh, WordPress.com has done an amazing job with TONS of traffic and commodity hardware. Plus, Virtual Machines are cheap. What's the problem?

Now, SmugMug is behind the 8-ball. If you understood I.T. Management, then you'd admit I was right. Because I am.

Re: Cloud Computing Does Not Spell the End for Common Sense I.T. Management

Frankie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:16:36 -0000

You bag on Smugmug, but take a step back and think about their problem. They have 335 million photos and store the original size in addition to 8 display sizes. Is it worth it for them to pay millions of dollars per year for storage that gets used for a few hours during that year?

Twitter, quite honestly, has enough outages of their own that keeping S3 as a single point of failure for their images is probably a relatively safe bet.

Maybe you don't understand the "web world" as well as you think?