Amazon Glacier is very good for backup if Retrival is not needed.. :P

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Amazon Glacier? 1c/GB if it's any use for your purposes.

multiple backups that you define as necessary. Amazon s3 maybe? However, I will admit I have seen a change in chris's behavior over the past few days, as otherwise I wouldn't still be with the compan

Acceptable payment options are PayPal, Credit Card via PayPal, AlertPay, Amazon Simple Pay, Google Checkout, Check/Money Order (US Funds drawn on US Bank)

I already experienced some issue, though. The host node time is off by ca 30 secs and Amazon s3 is throwing timetooskewed error. (Image)

partitions at boot time, like a poor mans Amazon. It simply saves the time restoring images from a remote backup.

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/amazon-free-ec2-micro-instance-613mb-xen-vps-for-1-year/

overboard on Taxes for online businesses, except Amazon.

I think that people are having to much fun with this. Give the guy a break, he's only 16. I vote that we get him this:

I'm currently working on making a WordPress Multisite installation have no SPOF, whilst being in sync at all times... without using Amazon S3 for the files (Image)

You can try Amazon EC2 in Japan but the price ....

I'm dressing up fo shure.

@zen AWS do offer the pieces to build in redundancy but leave it to their ecosystem to bundle that stuff (although AWS slowly eats the smaller providers simply by baking their ideas into the platform)

Amazon are doing something no-one has done before, operating at a scale most of us could dream of at a level of discipline/automation most providers are nowhere near. The problem seems to be one of c

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Second large outage in a few months. The average uptime of Amazon services is lower than that of any of my VPSes, as far as I can tell.

@Zen, am I right that those sites were dragged offline just because they used a single Amazon location?

Amazon sucks, honestly. Their are so many other enterprise providers who have much better track records than Amazon. Not sure why they are still the standard.

Amazon has other locations with the same services. Was the outage just geographic for users nearby to Washington, DC (where outage was) or did it impact all users of these sites?