kovyrin

MongoDb? ;-)

You know, we never complained about cpu, memory, disk or network performance. The only real complaints were about the fact that no cloud instances had uptime of more than a week. I'm totally OK with shit being slow (we could always optimize or scale out), but when it is plain broken - this is when I need to wake up and fix things.

Yeah, even if one could scale up his web/app farms 2400% so fast, I'd really like to see a database that scales up/out this well :-)

Damn, this is exactly what I was experiencing: when I'd ask "wtf? how comes your management would not see the trend" I' d constantly receive "you're the only customer experiencing this problem!" bullshit.

Yeah, we run 100+ dedicated boxes for 3 years now and our experience is really great. Hence the rant - why couldn't they provide the same quality of service and support for their cloud offering?

Yes, their dedicated servers hosting is just awesome - the best I've seen! But their cloud stuff is terrible and this is what made me really frustrated and guess about it being a 3rd party service poorly integrated - their cloud offering sucked, they could not offer any reasonable support for it, etc.

The thing is, all our cloud instances were redundant so SL downtimes almost never caused real service disruptions on the site. But when one instance dies, there is a huge chance that other one (two, five, ten) will die soon as well. As for the automated kill/deploy scripts - really often even their own cloud-related portal features don't work (like when you try to restart/reset an instance and their APIs and portal just time out, etc).

I'd personally hate all my reading (including shit I open but do not like/read) to be shared on my account. Having control over what is shared is good IMHO.

Why would nginx be a bottleneck? and What kind of bottleneck do you mean?

Actually I didn't want to freak you out :-)

Of course we've heard (and even used) caching reverse proxies - I've just explained the flow of our thoughts and words in the chat room during the brainstorming. I mean one thing is when you know about something and completely different when all pieces of a puzzle get together and you see a full picture.

Actually squid is fast enough for us :-) And, as I already pointed out in comments to the post:

Before choosing Squid 3.0 I've discussed this with percona guys (which I really trust since I worked there quite a while) and they shared with my some really weird stories from their experience (on boardreader.com) with Varnish (constant memory leaks, crashes, etc). So, I decided to go with Squid and pretty happy about the result so far.