convore.json/groups/epio/why-the-move-from-rackspace-cloud-to-amazon-web-services/messages.json

[{"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12903, "date_created": 1300068665.207674, "message": "(around half of the runners are spot instances at any one time, which basically halves costs)", "group_id": 2873, "id": 344569}, {"user_id": 14460, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12903, "date_created": 1300065942.149477, "message": "I don't think I've seen anything posted on what motivated the move and I think it would be instructive and help inform future decision making on cloud hosting.", "group_id": 2873, "id": 344508}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12903, "date_created": 1300068599.043385, "message": "So, firstly, it was Linode we were on, not RSC :)", "group_id": 2873, "id": 344565}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12903, "date_created": 1300068649.7901421, "message": "Secondly, we crunched the numbers, and EC2 really comes out a lot better for memory and CPU time, and they're not too far off on bandwidth - especially with spot pricing, which we can use since we have a redundant system", "group_id": 2873, "id": 344567}, {"user_id": 16058, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12903, "date_created": 1300078780.3366671, "message": "EC2 instances aren't persistent. And Rackspace is cheaper, so why not RSC?", "group_id": 2873, "id": 345035}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12903, "date_created": 1300124783.001039, "message": "Rackspace isn't cheaper for what we're doing. Trust me, I have a breakdown of cost per CPU hour/GB of RAM/GB of BW/etc.", "group_id": 2873, "id": 349490}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300126931.011523, "user_id": 1081}, {"date_created": 1300240347.892637, "user_id": 8391}], "topic_id": 12903, "date_created": 1300124811.497442, "message": "Remember, we don't need persistance at all - ep.io is written correctly for a cloud service - and so we can leverage the good parts of EC2", "group_id": 2873, "id": 349496}]