Comments on: ummmm… http://elwoodicious.com/2007/06/28/ummmm/ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:11:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: james http://elwoodicious.com/2007/06/28/ummmm/#comment-1756 james Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:44:38 +0000 http://elwoodicious.com/2007/06/28/ummmm/#comment-1756 Yeah, immutable storage is one of my main concerns and the solution seems to be replicating to at least one data node that resides in a standard configuration but beyond that there are some nagging doubts that plague the concept. The biggest is security, since most most clusters are built behind a firewall and reside on a privet network are4 a little easier to secure but EC2 doesn't <a href="http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa;jsessionid=D179636F07A22B56E32BAFF5E7E43484?messageID=44478궾" rel="nofollow">support private subnets</a> (at the moment) and setting up a VPN will kill performance. What to do? The other concern is the cost. While it's pretty cheap to deploy a server or two launching a load balancer, cluster manager, two data nodes, and a SQL server could get a little pricey. Thanks for the tip, though, I will definitely check out TheGridLayer. Yeah, immutable storage is one of my main concerns and the solution seems to be replicating to at least one data node that resides in a standard configuration but beyond that there are some nagging doubts that plague the concept.

The biggest is security, since most most clusters are built behind a firewall and reside on a privet network are4 a little easier to secure but EC2 doesn’t support private subnets (at the moment) and setting up a VPN will kill performance. What to do?

The other concern is the cost. While it’s pretty cheap to deploy a server or two launching a load balancer, cluster manager, two data nodes, and a SQL server could get a little pricey.

Thanks for the tip, though, I will definitely check out TheGridLayer.

]]> By: Bert Armijo http://elwoodicious.com/2007/06/28/ummmm/#comment-1755 Bert Armijo Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:31:24 +0000 http://elwoodicious.com/2007/06/28/ummmm/#comment-1755 You're going to have a tough time with MySQL on EC2 due to the lack of permanent disk storage. Mark Atwood got a great deal of attention just for getting it to read from S3. If you're not complete set on EC2 try TheGridlayer. You’re going to have a tough time with MySQL on EC2 due to the lack of permanent disk storage. Mark Atwood got a great deal of attention just for getting it to read from S3.

If you’re not complete set on EC2 try TheGridlayer.

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