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Aug 28, 2011 / 4:14pm

A Short Rant About Hosting

My own experience with virtualized hosting is that I/O performance can be very poor, and that it can be impossible to diagnose underlying I/O problems from within the virtual machine. For example, in early days of Pinboard we found ourselves hosted on a machine that needed to recover a RAID volume. This so crippled I/O that it forced the site onto a backup server for three days, and yet from the perspective of the virtual machine everything looked the same. The 'physical' device was still mostly idle, just a hundred times slower than it used to be. That and similar adventures cured me of any desire to host on a non-dedicated server.
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On choosing hosting provider for your web service.

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Jun 9, 2011 / 12:23am

iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows

This redefines digital incumbency. The incumbent platform today is Windows because it is in Windows machines that nearly all of our data and our ability to use that data have been trapped. But the Apple announcement changes all that. Suddenly the competition isn’t about platforms at all, but about data, with that data being crunched on a variety of platforms through the use of cheap downloaded apps.
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One of the first articles to come trying to define what iCloud “really” means. I'm afraid this one overestimates how much Jobs cares about Windows as a competition.

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May 22, 2011 / 11:46am

How Google Docs Killed GDrive

Think about it," said Pichai. "You just want to get information into the cloud. When people use our Google Docs, there are no more files. You just start editing in the cloud, and there's never a file.
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How GDrive was killed before it was born.

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Apr 2, 2011 / 11:12pm

Amazon Cloud Drive is not Dropbox

I wouldn’t be surprised if a version of Dropbox that plays nicely with the Cloud Drive is one of the first Cloud Drive apps on the scene. It makes a great deal of sense. Instead of paying Dropbox for storage and syncing, we could just pay them for syncing. As it stands now, Dropbox is a middleman between you and Amazon in terms of storage. The costs for 50GB / 100 GB Amazon Cloud Drives are half the price of Dropbox and have a better chance of staying that way. Amazon has mastered storage and Dropbox has mastered syncing. Let’s allocate funds to the right places for the right services.
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Interesting idea. Regardless of how it will eventually work out, the days of omnipresent cloud storage are finally coming to the masses.

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Jul 15, 2010 / 12:08am

A Microsoft Windows Azure primer: the basics

In Azure, there's no direct access to the operating system or the software running on top of it—it's some kind of Windows variant, optimized for scalability, running some kind of IIS-like Web server with a .NET runtime—but with far fewer restrictions on application development than in Google's environment. Though .NET is, unsurprisingly, the preferred development platform, applications can be written using PHP, Java, or native code if preferred.
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Introduction to Windows Azure, cloud service from Microsoft, including comparison with Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

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