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Some more cloud computing links « Hotware: Dirk’s Software Blog — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:45:01 +0000

[...] Interesting fact: GoGrid accounced that over 2/3’s of GoGrid’s cloud servers deployed are running Windows. [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:18:33 +0000

Michael….

Is the feature roadmap published anywhere for us to see ??

These have been mentioned before but it would be great to have one spot to be able to review what’s upcoming & when for GoGrid:

- Custom Server Images & Snapshots

- Larger RAM/CPU options

- Ability to upsize an existing server (increase RAM/CPU)

- Roll out of the RightScale MySQL support functions

- Tweak the Dash
> key server stats and config details via click
> internal IP assignment via the Dash (like what is available now for external IP)
> ability to RD or SSH directly from Dash to server by clicking on server icon
> in IP tree show which are assigned to what server
> Remember Me login option – so username/pass doesn’t have to be typed each time
> Fix forum login so it happens automatically

- Ability to “turn off” a server (and not get billed) without deleting it.

- An edge firewall controlled in the interface for basic port management of all your external IPs rather than having to setup individual software firewalls on each server.

- Increased security of the grid management dashboard….for deleting/changing existing servers. Maybe require re-entering of password.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:28:43 +0000

@Michael,
thanks for the analysis/overview. I was intrigued by the SLA comparison, then disappointed upon digging a little.

If one wants to make a spend based comparison of SLA’s, which I’d like to do (rather than just time based), then I really should compare using a common basis/unit of measurement.

Specifically If I spend $1 with AWS does that really translate to the same resources I would get by spending $1 with GoGrid?

- I did just look into this briefly, but the following was my impression….

It’d be a brave soul who tried to map the AWS to GoGrid. AWS breaks their machine specs down much more clearly. I have a real problem progressing my analysis using your web site’s data. Seriously, what does buying one ram hour buy me in terms of cpu cycles and HDD space?
I think I’m correct in complaining here since AWS give more data.

This has made me suspect that the AWS-GoGrid target markets are so different in their use-cases requirements that perhaps such comparisons are not of interest to their two target markets?

I accept that different use cases might make this type of comparison irrelevant, but really if you’re going to suggest a SLA is 100 times better, it is less appealing if I have to use 200 times the resources/time to ‘recover’ from the interruption. think here of one MPI 1.x node dying during a task.

Otherwise thanks for the interesting blog – it’s still in my reader

Cheers

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:55:48 +0000

The thing that kinda gets me about the Amazon SLA is how they require you to lay an SLA outage. You’d need to produce the LOG files from the dead server showing the failure time as proof. What if the server node is lost… I heard that was an issue. Where are the log files?

By: Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:49:30 +0000

@ Martijn,

You probably meant your post to be directed to me (grin). Thanks for your list of requested features. These are all on our feature road map. Cloud Storage will be the most likely feature that you will see first and it will address points 3 and 4 above. Also, do remember that all GoGrid Cloud Servers do have persistent storage built in to them.

Thanks,
Michael