… will I have when migrating to the cloud” gets asked often enough. If by cloud you mean Amazon EC2, then from a… these limitations, then perhaps you should either look at a cloud hosting provider that can host non-virtualized servers for you…
Comment: Shard-Query turbo charges Infobright community edition (ICE)
May 6, 2011 By 22 Comments
I’ve started the splitter on my machine to spread the data over 50 shards. The data, compressed by gzip, is about 3.2GB, so it is easy to move into the cloud. I’ll only need a few hours for the test. I’ll post another blog post as a followup afterwards.
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 28, 2011 By 54 Comments
… to be looked into moving outside of Amazon and on to physical hardware. However, for a swiftly growing business,”the cloud” makes sense… to attract investors]. In the case where running on the cloud makes sense, it is important to realize your options. Take… data if you backup every hour vs shoving all updates into an SQS queue immediately and pulling the backup from there…
Post: Upgrading MySQL
January 5, 2010 By 23 Comments
…you bugs or potential data loss you may run into 
Reckless approach is safest if you’re running …a safe way to test things out – you can move read traffic to such slave to ensure new …to fail back quickly. This especially makes sense for cloud environments as Amazon EC2 where it is easy and…
