Thanks for the writeup. Hope to have these problems myself someday soon!
Fwiw, one pain point for me has been using EC2. I started off with EC2 from the start, so that I could learn the system now and scale up whenever I need.
Unfortunately, it seems that the performance of EC2 instances is terrible. Or at least, that's what it looks like for me. After a few weeks of trying to get performance boosts by tweaking code, I decided to try a small Slicehost slice, which performed much better at running the exact same system.
My friend (who recommended Slicehost) did the same test on Large EC2 instances as well, and reported that they also appeared oversubscribed.
Fwiw, one pain point for me has been using EC2. I started off with EC2 from the start, so that I could learn the system now and scale up whenever I need.
Unfortunately, it seems that the performance of EC2 instances is terrible. Or at least, that's what it looks like for me. After a few weeks of trying to get performance boosts by tweaking code, I decided to try a small Slicehost slice, which performed much better at running the exact same system.
My friend (who recommended Slicehost) did the same test on Large EC2 instances as well, and reported that they also appeared oversubscribed.