Mikhail Liebenstein Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Oh dear, there will be some techies feverishly slaving away. It looks like www.zoopla.co.uk is still down, and it has been since this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy D Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Zoopla appear to use Amazon for hosting and there are some issues in one of their datacentres this morning.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Liebenstein Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 (edited) Zoopla appear to use Amazon for hosting and there are some issues in one of their datacentres this morning.... That'll be Amazon EC2 or something then. Presumably no one yet has any mission critical stuff on it.. Edited April 21, 2011 by Mikhail Liebenstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Zoopla appear to use Amazon for hosting and there are some issues in one of their datacentres this morning.... Don't amazon use cloud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13160929 Scores of well-known websites have been unavailable for large parts of Thursday because of problems with Amazon's web hosting service. Foursquare, Reddit and Quora were among the sites taken offline by the glitch. Amazon EC2 is the retailer's cloud computing business. It provides processing power and storage to companies that do not have their own data centres. No reason has so far been given for the outage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I have a lot of images. video's and static content hosted on amazon S3. No problems here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy D Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Don't amazon use cloud? Amazon provide a cloud for others to use but if the people who use the cloud only use one part of it and that part fails they're stuffed. Amazon's datacentre in North Virginia is having problems, the others are ok. Currently looking at hosting something in the cloud that will be replicated between US, UK, and Asia. Would use just two locations but need the third for fast response times. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 (edited) Amazon provide a cloud for others to use but if the people who use the cloud only use one part of it and that part fails they're stuffed. Amazon's datacentre in North Virginia is having problems, the others are ok. Currently looking at hosting something in the cloud that will be replicated between US, UK, and Asia. Would use just two locations but need the third for fast response times. Andy If you are hosting images, media etc, look for a CDN account (content delivery network) and the load times should be good wherever your content is viewed. If your site is based on Wordpress, then there are plugins that help you take advantage of CDN's or Amazon S3. Many hosting co's are also bundling CDN accounts in. Static sites can all be hosted on Amazon S3, as you only pay for what you use and its pretty cheap. To resolve a domain name just create a CNAME record to resolve the domain to your S3 bucket. Edited April 21, 2011 by Sir John Steed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy D Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 If you are hosting images, media etc, look for a CDN account (content delivery network) and the load times should be good wherever your content is viewed. If your site is based on Wordpress, then there are plugins that help you take advantage of CDN's or Amazon S3. Many hosting co's are also bundling CDN accounts in. Static sites can all be hosted on Amazon S3, as you only pay for what you use and its pretty cheap. To resolve a domain name just create a CNAME record to resolve the domain to your S3 bucket. It's not for content distribution, it's for a set of web services that have to respond consistently quickly - think keeping up with a moving conveyor. S3 is ok for static content if you don't care about the latency, but a full blown CDN is preferable for CSS and JS. CDNs help but the best gains can be had by following Steve Souders (and others) recommendations. Until the end of last year I ran a webapp that served 900,000+ page views / day, by following some of the fronted performance guidelines we cranked average page load time down to less than one second (and there was more still to get) Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Until the end of last year I ran a webapp that served 900,000+ page views / day, Andy Ooo what was that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy D Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Ooo what was that? It's a subscription service for schools called Kerboodle Could have been much better than it is but corporate politics, a lack of understanding of how to build and operate web based applications hold it back. I was a square peg in a round hole and spent most of my time battling the bureaucracy and senior management. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 What is Zoopla? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy D Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 What is Zoopla? Property search engine that will also estimate values: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/ Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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