What is your favorite Cloud Platform?
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What is your favorite Cloud Platform?
"In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer
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Me neither. I didn't even know there were so many.
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I like the oldest of the cloud platforms.... (Score:3)
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That actually wouldn't be a bad name for a cloud platform. I'm surprised it hasn't been used yet. I mean, who at amazon chose the name "EC2" when they could've called it "Amazon Cumulus??!"
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The porn industry has probably already got it.
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I don't know what your needs are, as a 'non-enterprise' denizen, but I was just talking with a friend – not one hour ago – who was saying how much he was enjoying Amazon's EC2 service. He just started using it to run simulations for his PhD. He has, say, 8 simulations that take four days each. Instead of running them one at a time on his workstation, which would take a month, he now runs them in parallel in the cloud, and they are all done in four days. So, academia is another big niche.
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You don't have to manage backups/SAN/DR or anything of the sort.
Ahh not quite. You should ALWAYS have your own backups. Do you trust a host giving you a free or inexpensive service to offer five-nines? What guarantee do you have that their backups are any good? What happens if you let your contract lapse, do you get a CD in the mail with your data eventually? Not knocking these services, but if its your data you're the only one who cares enough about it to really back it up and protect it.
You can get my data out of my cold, dead... (Score:3)
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I picked VMforce because it is the last option in the poll. That is still the Cowboyneal option, right?
Re:None (Score:5, Funny)
Nice job, asshole! Now the results have no statistical validity! You've totally invalidated the poll! Now it's just meaningless click-fapping! I hope you're happy with yourself.
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Re:None (Score:5, Funny)
P.S.: Why are the <i> </i> tags borken???
P.P.S: "borken" is worse than "broken".
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B-b-but... Oh, no! If we can't rely on Slashdot polls, how can we be sure of other polls? How can we trust statistics, itself? This could be the end of Western civilization as we know it!
I think I'd better go out and dig another moat around my bomb shelter.
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Actually I was looking for the comedic response along the lines of "various regulated and unregulated recreational substances, taken in moderation of course" ;).
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Neither do I, and since there isn't an option available for me, I picked Azure, just because it had the least votes and I felt like helping the underdog.
Same. In my case, Engine Yard was the underdog.
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FYI, that's the Microsoft offering.
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Yeah you like that? That means that we're hosting our servers on cable modems that aren't even hooked up to cable. Not. I wanted to put a real picture of our servers up there, but couldn't get it to look as nice. Oh well, ending up using the picture I took on our dedicated servers page anyways.
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i was thinking nimbus.
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Not much of a cloud if it's a single 100Mhz Pentium Pro in your basement, dude.
haha... it's more of a raindrop, really...
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but i even use the cloud symbol in my visio network diagram for the machine, plus i painted the beige monster in a light grey, and put it against a light blue wall!
Seriously though, i rolled my own for the internal fileserver, have a VPS for my GFs website, and if i ever wanted to make some private service for myself, i'd just hook up my mini-itx server again.
If i wanted to do something serious/public, i guess i'd go for google app engine at first glance.
Also, what is with the missing cowboy neal option? di
Missing Mick Jagger option? (Score:2)
He must have a cloud set up, otherwise how could he be telling me to get offa it?
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Oblig. SW Cloud Platform (Score:5, Insightful)
Nepethelokokkygia! (Score:2)
It contains all of the cloud platforms listed in the poll.
Jokes? (Score:5, Insightful)
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If I ever needed a cloud platform, I would just hack into Cowboy Neal's toaster, microwave, and refrigerator, and use those.
Uh... I mean Cowboy Neal's Mom's appliances, upstairs you know.
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A Beowulf cluster of Timex/Sinclair 1000s
There you go.
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Or
A Hurd of Vaxen
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Seriously. Can't a brother get a shout-out to Lakitu?
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Do you have any reasons why it's a joke? Last time I checked Azure was a serious cloud platform and looked just as good as many of the alternatives.
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The insensitive clods!
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Seriously. What's wrong with Azure?
Missing Options (Score:2)
The bonus areas in SMB Levels 2-1, 5-2, etc.
Cloud City on Bespin.
Cloud Nine.
clouds are composed of VAPOR (Score:3)
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or off course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_9_(Battlestar_Galactica)#Cloud_9 [wikipedia.org]
What? No Zeppelin option? (Score:3, Funny)
Why have your data "in the cloud" when you can *literally* have it in the clouds, along with all the other standard evil overlord accoutrements?
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the assumption being... (Score:5, Insightful)
that we all must necessarily think cloud is a good thing and want to use it.
Not me, I value my privacy.
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So you store your /. postings on your own hard drive?
Re:the assumption being... (Score:4, Insightful)
> So you store your /. postings on your own hard drive?
Have you considered the possibility that he does not view his /. postings as "private"?
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Have you considered that not every cloud needs to deal in private data?
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So you store your /. postings on your own hard drive?
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G fr snn.
Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
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The requirements [wowhead.com] are a bit high if you ask me.
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UNIT flying (Score:2)
My favorite cloud platform is the UNIT flying aircraft carrier in the Doctor Who series!
(the one in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow," too).
--second choice, Laputa, in the Miyazaki "City in the Clouds" (stolen from Swift).
None? (Score:2)
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Is this some web developer thing?
No, though some of the options (App Engine, Heroku, Engine Yard AppCloud) are web-app focussed.
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Is this some web developer thing?
No, though some of the options (App Engine, Heroku, Engine Yard AppCloud) are web-app focussed.
Engine Yard is a RoR (Ruby on Rails) hosting service. One of my friends was involved in their startup.
Latest IT fad..... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's the latest IT fad. Some tech marketing demon creates these fads to make the old new again and then profit.
Here's how to make $$$ in IT:
Missing option (Score:2)
Eversion. (Just don't use it late at night)
I'm not giving them my data! (Score:5, Insightful)
The occasional outages and stories of lost mail archives of some very large providers make me worry. Frankly, I don't trust the Cloud providers to be stable enough over the long-term. Companies merge, get bought, go bust, etc., and any of these events could cause a temporary or permanent service disruption, terms of usage policy change, security problem, total loss of data, etc. If you move your data to the cloud, then you must accept that you are giving up a great deal of control. You must consider how mission critical the data is, how you are going to make/keep backups, the cost of losing access temporarily/permanently, etc.
For some types of data, this may not be a problem. But, for me, the Cloud is just too flaky for the type of data I'd like to store in it. Would you be comfortable if your Cloud data got given to Wikileaks, or, worse, to some criminal organization. Your provider might not even tell (or even know) you if this occurs, especially since they are not legally required to in may countries. Call me paranoid, but disgruntled employees of large corporations can do bad things; and you have no control over how those employees are vetted or treated. Your provider might be fine now, but what happens when the provider is bought by say, Walmart, and costs get cut to the bone.
I realize my date center won't scale as nicely as, say, Amazon's, but I'm not (yet) prepared to let someone else be responsible for the safety and security of MY data.
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Cool story bro
Platforms vs. Hosting offerings (Score:3)
Cloud? I'll keep my cloud in the local data center
The omission of locally hostable cloud options (Eucalyptus, OpenCloud, AppScale) rather than just cloud hosting offerings might be a design flaw in the poll (or calling it "cloud platforms" rather than "cloud hosting offerings" might be the problem.)
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Re:I'm not giving them my data! (Score:4, Insightful)
Hehe. Facebook. (Score:5, Funny)
Missing option:
Facebook
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That's no cloud...
Rackspace (Score:2)
I've used Rackspace for my own personal uses and it's worked out well. It's great for a developer like me. I can pay a small fee per month and spool up all kinds of servers at whim. I have 2 servers running Linux/Apache/Cassandra/Python and then another running Windows server for my .Net development. If I need to install a package to get up to speed on it I just spool another up and install it. If it goes awry I destroy the image and start over. It does wonders for a learning environment. Throw away environ
Rackspace Customer is Still Spamming Me (Score:3)
Rackspace's customer http://www.tbnonline.com/ [tbnonline.com] started spamming me daily last week, and Rackspace's abuse people haven't gotten them to stop yet. I Googled to get more information about them, and the same customer was getting spam complaints back in 2002 and Rackspace wasn't fixing them. Their IP address, mail.tbnonline.com 204.232.152.186 is part of a /29 block that Rackspace SWIP'ed to their customer tbnonline. I'm guessing this is a colo service rather than cloud, but I don't know yet.
I'm interested
Missing option: Rent a botnet (Score:4, Insightful)
Those are cloud platforms as well!
My preferred cloud platform .. (Score:2)
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I notice that there haven't been any polls with Cowboy Neal options for quite a while.
What's up with that?
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It's fine with me either way. I never chose the Cowboy Neal option, and almost never thought they were funny.
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big blue
IBM?
Too dangerous (Score:2)
With global warming, soon all the clouds will evaporate and all data will be lost.
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Here are some sigs I've written about Cloud computing
You can also add something witty about losing your data when you don't pay your storage bills.
Missing Option: Miyazaki (Score:5, Funny)
Laputa, the castle in the sky, of course!
Zeppelin (Score:3)
EC2 is a standard (Score:2)
Amazon EC2 is an open standard which is implemented by prominent open-source projects such as Eucalyptus. EC2 is also very common already.
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Hosting EC2 away from Amazon may make it viable. I doubt anybody trusts Amazon any more for cloud hosting after snipping Wikileaks with no notice when a US politician clicks their fingers.
Phillip.
None of the above. (Score:2)
none of the above (Score:4, Interesting)
If I have to have clouds, make them nice fluffy cumulo-nimbus
What about CN? (Score:3)
Stratocumulus? (Score:5, Interesting)
I know I'm not supposed to complain about the lack of options, but this poll has no provision for respondents who don't use nor trust cloud platforms.
I can not vote in this poll.
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Missing Option: Steam (Score:3)
How about Valve's Steam platform?
Saving my Plants vs Zombies game in the Steam Cloud lets me keep the damn Zombies off mah lawn no matter where I am!
My favorite cloud platform (Score:5, Insightful)
My favorite cloud platform is a Linux server I have in my closet. It runs several externally exposed KVM Linux instances, and doesn't have any costs or limitations associated with any of the other options (well, other than 30 bucks a year I pay for electricity to run this server). 4TB of combined storage, Two cores fully at my disposal, each instance has 2GB of RAM allocated to it. This would cost an arm and a leg if I got it from Amazon.
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But cloud pricing still just seems "competitive" with roll-your-own, rather than a market-changing cost savings.
How can you offer the same sort of uptime at home, as a cloud provider can offer for $745 a year? You can't even get a decent router/firewall combo and two internet feeds for that. Even a standard APC 1500 series UPS is going to eat up most of your $745.
For a fairly real world comparison, the company I work for has 192 sq/ft in an AT&T IDC and our monthly bill is nearly $100,000. That is f
The sky (Score:2)
the sky
Poster doesn't get it (Score:2)
Both have their own use cases, and the poll would have been much more interesting if it would focus on one of these at the time. This is a very active space with a lot of development and innovation going in each layer, which (at least for
I so want the option... (Score:2)
Cowboy Neil's cloud platform.
I can honestly say that I never use anything else.
cowboyneal where are you? (Score:2)
cowboyneal where are you? I don't knowingly use any of them, but I suspect that during my browsing and buying I may be using all of them. I never liked the term 'cloud' because it just seems to be a computer config that has been around for ages, but never had a name.
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misspelling cowboyneil was just a way to flush him out.... realy..
until the contrary is proven... (Score:2)
Super Mario Bros (Score:2)
None of the above.... (Score:2)
100% open source based on Open standards and easy to migrate and create your own.
That's the "cloud" solution I use. my one rolled by using OSS solutions out there. The company I work for will never trust another company to hold all the keys to the kingdom.... and many others feel that way as well.
Missing Option: Joni (Score:3)
Where's Final Fantasy VII? (Score:3)
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Why you should like clouds... (Score:3, Interesting)
Say you are a programmer. You have some spare time. You have loads of talent. You want to write a great little addictive game that supports multiplayer. Maybe make a little money.
You are smart enough to want to build in automatic updates, user account verification, user skins, multiplayer server lists and so on. Your little home PC doesn't have the bandwidth, the up-time, nor the horse power to pull it off.
You can go to the cloud. They have bandwidth, storage space, up-time. Pay some money, get your
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I don't know why this was modded down to 0 as a troll. The posting is opinionated, but not unreasonable.
I don't like ANY cloud platform. (Score:2)
Then why are you here posting on /. which is a cloud platform. Hell, why are you on the 'net at all?
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