> A 15-person start up like Heroku could never support its thousands of users for a measly few million in venture capital with traditional hosting
I wonder if this is true. If they work with 22 virtualized instances, maybe 10 good servers can provide more or less the same performances. Let's forget for a moment if EC2 is the way to go or not, and all the benefits, but I can't see how a company with a few millions can't afford running 10 big linux boxes instead to use EC2.
I wonder if this is true. If they work with 22 virtualized instances, maybe 10 good servers can provide more or less the same performances. Let's forget for a moment if EC2 is the way to go or not, and all the benefits, but I can't see how a company with a few millions can't afford running 10 big linux boxes instead to use EC2.