Comments for Erik Howard http://www.erikhoward.net Cloud Computing, SaaS, and Web Development Blog Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:21:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Cloud Computing vs Dedicated Server by James R-Australia http://www.erikhoward.net/cloud-computing-vs-dedicated-server/#comment-29 James R-Australia Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:21:48 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=39#comment-29 Hi Erik, I just chatted to a friend who was seeking some secure dedicated server to offer online training and certification. Instead of his original plans of dedicated servers hosted and an in-house Dev team, he went to the cloud and hired some developers in the Phillipines and he saved 70% on his projected forcast using the cloud! I'm going to research some more. Keep up the great articles. James Hi Erik,

I just chatted to a friend who was seeking some secure dedicated server to offer online training and certification. Instead of his original plans of dedicated servers hosted and an in-house Dev team, he went to the cloud and hired some developers in the Phillipines and he saved 70% on his projected forcast using the cloud!

I’m going to research some more. Keep up the great articles.

James

]]> Comment on Cloud Computing vs Dedicated Server by Erik Howard http://www.erikhoward.net/cloud-computing-vs-dedicated-server/#comment-28 Erik Howard Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:11:17 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=39#comment-28 James, Thanks for your great comment. I have production systems in the cloud and I also have dedicated servers. I wouldn't advocate anyone jumping into cloud or utility computing unless they truly understand the strengths and weaknesses of dedicated servers vs servers hosted in the cloud. Most people make the mistake at only looking at what an instance will cost them. They fail to calculate the cost of bandwidth, static IP's, reserved disk space. That $.20c per hour instance quickly rises to an $.60-$0.70 cents per hour instance. Thanks again for the great comment. -Erik James,

Thanks for your great comment. I have production systems in the cloud and I also have dedicated servers.

I wouldn’t advocate anyone jumping into cloud or utility computing unless they truly understand the strengths and weaknesses of dedicated servers vs servers hosted in the cloud.

Most people make the mistake at only looking at what an instance will cost them. They fail to calculate the cost of bandwidth, static IP’s, reserved disk space. That $.20c per hour instance quickly rises to an $.60-$0.70 cents per hour instance.

Thanks again for the great comment.

-Erik

]]> Comment on Cloud Computing vs Dedicated Server by James R-Australia http://www.erikhoward.net/cloud-computing-vs-dedicated-server/#comment-27 James R-Australia Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:18:55 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=39#comment-27 Thanks Erik, great article. There is a lot of confusion around the cloud with public, private and hybrid flavors and most have seen much success with the likes of salesforce.com and amazon.com etc. For a business looking for value and reliability, I would personally stay with dedicated servers. I did a quick comparison. I could get a computer in the cloud for around $0.90c per hour. Approx $21 a day. Sounds cheap. Over a month that is $630. Now, on the flipside for instance, we offer on our virtual server platform a server (1vcpu, 2gb RAM and 40GB disk) for approx $250 per month. For Windows a MS SPLA license adds about $20. Hosted on tier 1 hardware, high available data centre facility, server cluster, SAN, VSS Snapshots, redundant internet etc. etc. That is a big difference in price. Maybe I am old fashioned but I prefer knowing where my server is housed. I have concerns about security, accountability, compliance and regulations surrounding server infrastructure such as PCI DSS. How well are these enforced in the cloud? I know some cloud providers state this but what measurement and stop/checks are used? Up time and support contacts is another area to consider. I think different applications/companies need different platform depending on their specified requirement, where some applications are suited to the cloud some are just more suited to a dedicated server environment. James Righetti Thanks Erik, great article.

There is a lot of confusion around the cloud with public, private and hybrid flavors and most have seen much success with the likes of salesforce.com and amazon.com etc.

For a business looking for value and reliability, I would personally stay with dedicated servers. I did a quick comparison. I could get a computer in the cloud for around $0.90c per hour. Approx $21 a day. Sounds cheap. Over a month that is $630.

Now, on the flipside for instance, we offer on our virtual server platform a server (1vcpu, 2gb RAM and 40GB disk) for approx $250 per month. For Windows a MS SPLA license adds about $20. Hosted on tier 1 hardware, high available data centre facility, server cluster, SAN, VSS Snapshots, redundant internet etc. etc.

That is a big difference in price. Maybe I am old fashioned but I prefer knowing where my server is housed.

I have concerns about security, accountability, compliance and regulations surrounding server infrastructure such as PCI DSS. How well are these enforced in the cloud? I know some cloud providers state this but what measurement and stop/checks are used? Up time and support contacts is another area to consider.

I think different applications/companies need different platform depending on their specified requirement, where some applications are suited to the cloud some are just more suited to a dedicated server environment.

James Righetti

]]> Comment on Erlang Debugging and UTF-16 by Erik Howard» Best posts on Erik Howard from last week | Erik Howard http://www.erikhoward.net/erlang-debugging-utf16/#comment-11 Erik Howard» Best posts on Erik Howard from last week | Erik Howard Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:09:37 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=72#comment-11 [...] Erlang Debugging and UTF-16 Posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 in Erlang - Comments: (0) I’ve been teaching myself Erlang.  It’s a great Functional Programming language. I’ve also dabbled a little with Scala.Besides wanting to learn a new computer language, I’ve also wanted to port some of my high-traffic Ruby On Rails sites into Erlang. Erlang will be able to handle 3x-4x the traffic using less resources. Less EC2 instances up and running means more money in my pocket. [...] [...] Erlang Debugging and UTF-16 Posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 in Erlang – Comments: (0) I’ve been teaching myself Erlang.  It’s a great Functional Programming language. I’ve also dabbled a little with Scala.Besides wanting to learn a new computer language, I’ve also wanted to port some of my high-traffic Ruby On Rails sites into Erlang. Erlang will be able to handle 3x-4x the traffic using less resources. Less EC2 instances up and running means more money in my pocket. [...]

]]> Comment on More News of Google Buying Twitter by Erik Howard» Best posts on Erik Howard from last week | Erik Howard http://www.erikhoward.net/news-google-buying-twitter/#comment-8 Erik Howard» Best posts on Erik Howard from last week | Erik Howard Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:51:05 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=68#comment-8 [...] More News of Google Buying Twitter Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in acquisitions - Comments: (0) More rumors today from TechCrunch about Google and Twitter.  Michael Arrington from TechCrunch goes on to say that Google and Twitter are in early talks of some type of partnership or an outright acquisition.Last year Facebook was in talks to buy Twitter for over a half billion dollars. Twitters current valuation is around $250 million dollars. If such a deal would go through this would be the second time that Evan Williams has sold a company he co-founded to Google. [...] [...] More News of Google Buying Twitter Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in acquisitions – Comments: (0) More rumors today from TechCrunch about Google and Twitter.  Michael Arrington from TechCrunch goes on to say that Google and Twitter are in early talks of some type of partnership or an outright acquisition.Last year Facebook was in talks to buy Twitter for over a half billion dollars. Twitters current valuation is around $250 million dollars. If such a deal would go through this would be the second time that Evan Williams has sold a company he co-founded to Google. [...]

]]> Comment on Should Google Buy Twitter? by Best posts on Erik Howard from last week | Erik Howard : Erik Howard http://www.erikhoward.net/google-buy-twitter/#comment-6 Best posts on Erik Howard from last week | Erik Howard : Erik Howard Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:57:42 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=44#comment-6 [...] Should Google Buy Twitter? Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in twitter - Comments: (0) The Motley Fool has a new article on why Google should buy Twitter.They assert that Google would be the most suitable match for Twitter. They could afford to buy the non-revenue generating Twitter in this bad economic environment.They would have no problems hosting Twitter. Google has the horsepower and bandwidth to prevent Tweet Overload. The culture and vision of both companies would not clash as much as a Microsoft Twitter tie-up. [...] [...] Should Google Buy Twitter? Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in twitter – Comments: (0) The Motley Fool has a new article on why Google should buy Twitter.They assert that Google would be the most suitable match for Twitter. They could afford to buy the non-revenue generating Twitter in this bad economic environment.They would have no problems hosting Twitter. Google has the horsepower and bandwidth to prevent Tweet Overload. The culture and vision of both companies would not clash as much as a Microsoft Twitter tie-up. [...]

]]> Comment on Cloud Computing vs Dedicated Server by Web Developer Dubai http://www.erikhoward.net/cloud-computing-vs-dedicated-server/#comment-4 Web Developer Dubai Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:30:50 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=39#comment-4 Thanks. I was really confused to choose between cloud hosting and dedicated server. It is really helpful article and helped me to understand the concept. Thanks. I was really confused to choose between cloud hosting and dedicated server. It is really helpful article and helped me to understand the concept.

]]> Comment on IE 8 First Impressions by Erik Howard http://www.erikhoward.net/8-impressions/#comment-3 Erik Howard Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:37:48 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=15#comment-3 Thanks Travis. I've been running it for a few days now and I haven't had any problems with it. 8th time is the charm - maybe. Thanks Travis. I’ve been running it for a few days now and I haven’t had any problems with it. 8th time is the charm – maybe.

]]> Comment on IE 8 First Impressions by Travis Spencer http://www.erikhoward.net/8-impressions/#comment-2 Travis Spencer Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:33:21 +0000 http://www.erikhoward.net/?p=15#comment-2 Thanks for the info about the developer tools. Perhaps there is a reason to install IE8 after all. Thanks again. Thanks for the info about the developer tools. Perhaps there is a reason to install IE8 after all. Thanks again.

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