Comments on: Server Management Made Simpler http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2010/01/how-do-you-manage-lots-of-servers-easily/ Time is money. Track it wisely. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:15:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Warwick Poole http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2010/01/how-do-you-manage-lots-of-servers-easily/#comment-729 Warwick Poole Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:32:24 +0000 http://www.getharvest.com/blog/?p=2251#comment-729 Hi Stephen It's always good to hear AWS success stories. At the moment we only have ancillary services in EC2 (monitoring, etc) but this situation may evolve over time. Thanks for your thoughts! Hi Stephen

It’s always good to hear AWS success stories. At the moment we only have ancillary services in EC2 (monitoring, etc) but this situation may evolve over time.

Thanks for your thoughts!

]]> By: Stephen Sayre http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2010/01/how-do-you-manage-lots-of-servers-easily/#comment-725 Stephen Sayre Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:46:54 +0000 http://www.getharvest.com/blog/?p=2251#comment-725 Just wanted to chime in on EC2. We moved completely over to EC2 early 2007 and have been extremely pleased with that decision. We leverage several AWService's (EC2, S3, SQS, SDB) and find that it just works. We have a small team and need to be mindful of how much time we spend on our infrastructure. With EC2, we now spend less time then we did at a conventional data center (they were great folks by the way) and have all the flexibility and growth we literally could ever need. I hope you have a similar experience. Personally, given our experience, it gives me greater confidence knowing that some of your services are migrating over. Enjoy! Just wanted to chime in on EC2. We moved completely over to EC2 early 2007 and have been extremely pleased with that decision. We leverage several AWService’s (EC2, S3, SQS, SDB) and find that it just works. We have a small team and need to be mindful of how much time we spend on our infrastructure. With EC2, we now spend less time then we did at a conventional data center (they were great folks by the way) and have all the flexibility and growth we literally could ever need. I hope you have a similar experience. Personally, given our experience, it gives me greater confidence knowing that some of your services are migrating over. Enjoy!

]]> By: Warwick Poole http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2010/01/how-do-you-manage-lots-of-servers-easily/#comment-687 Warwick Poole Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:26:27 +0000 http://www.getharvest.com/blog/?p=2251#comment-687 Hi Jim, thanks for the comment. We have looked at all sorts of "cloud computing" options and thought about how we can leverage different solutions to reduce our systems management overhead. We don't have plans to abandon managing our own infrastructure just yet as it provides some flexibility which we currently rely on. But we are already using some resources from <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/" rel="nofollow">Amazon EC2</a> and who knows what the future holds. Hi Jim, thanks for the comment. We have looked at all sorts of “cloud computing” options and thought about how we can leverage different solutions to reduce our systems management overhead. We don’t have plans to abandon managing our own infrastructure just yet as it provides some flexibility which we currently rely on. But we are already using some resources from Amazon EC2 and who knows what the future holds.

]]> By: Jim Kring http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2010/01/how-do-you-manage-lots-of-servers-easily/#comment-685 Jim Kring Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:47:11 +0000 http://www.getharvest.com/blog/?p=2251#comment-685 You can also solve this problem by avoiding the need to manage a server, altogether. For example, take a look at <a href="http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/sites" rel="nofollow">Rackspace Cloud Sites</a>. Cheers, You can also solve this problem by avoiding the need to manage a server, altogether. For example, take a look at Rackspace Cloud Sites.

Cheers,

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