> "A single AWS instance is not reliable, and isn't designed > to be particularly reliable."
> Source?
Reading the AWS EC2 forums for any length of time or launching your own EC2 instances into production and watching them fall over from time to time.
All arbitrary, but I don't think anyone that has deployed on EC2 with more than a handful of servers would ever describe it as an overly stable service.
> Why would you feel more comfortable running a single instance outside of AWS? Your safety is just an illusion.
In theory, absolutely agree. It sounds like you were agreeing with the OP to be honest, but just getting pedantic about single-AWS instance vs single-dedicated instance in another hosting company.
Sure, best practices dictate trusting a single point of failure is not a good idea.
In practice, my dedicated deployments (at RimuHosting if that matters) are infinitely more stable than my EC2 deployments and I think that data point is worth something -- not going to bet the farm on it, but I'm also not going to treat my dedicated servers like I would flaky EC2 VMs.
> Running on a single machine is never safe and AWS is cheap enough and comes with enough tools (ELB, RDS, maybe EBS) to allow you to become truly redundant and single fault tolerant.
You are agreeing with the EwanToo from what I can tell...
Reading the AWS EC2 forums for any length of time or launching your own EC2 instances into production and watching them fall over from time to time.
All arbitrary, but I don't think anyone that has deployed on EC2 with more than a handful of servers would ever describe it as an overly stable service.
> Why would you feel more comfortable running a single instance outside of AWS? Your safety is just an illusion.
In theory, absolutely agree. It sounds like you were agreeing with the OP to be honest, but just getting pedantic about single-AWS instance vs single-dedicated instance in another hosting company.
Sure, best practices dictate trusting a single point of failure is not a good idea.
In practice, my dedicated deployments (at RimuHosting if that matters) are infinitely more stable than my EC2 deployments and I think that data point is worth something -- not going to bet the farm on it, but I'm also not going to treat my dedicated servers like I would flaky EC2 VMs.
> Running on a single machine is never safe and AWS is cheap enough and comes with enough tools (ELB, RDS, maybe EBS) to allow you to become truly redundant and single fault tolerant.
You are agreeing with the EwanToo from what I can tell...