Posts Tagged with ‘Amazon-EC2’

In a rare case of actual advance financial planning on the web, Google has announced the price structure for its Google App Engine offering.  Granted Google is not necessarily the best example of financial planning in an online company, since they are all about the Benjamins with their AdWords, AdSense and other monetization strategies. It's just that it is so rare to see any company with a business plan online it stands out when it happens, like Sasquatch sightings.
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Remember when Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors on the cheap? Bootstrapping a Web 2.0 start-up is the name of the game, but one of the problems with this mentality s that apps aren't built to scale out of the box. Services like Amazon's EC2 can help with scaling your hardware needs, but you still have to be able to be able to build that app to scale across all those servers. Enter GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which
“combines advanced services [...]

This week saw the launch of Wikia Search, and the revelation that Mahalo is still relying on Google for most of its traffic, using SEO strategy to drive it. And while everyone wants to be the search engine that actually succeeds in drawing users away from Google, no one really thinks that a contender has appeared yet.
Here's the rub: Google is processing over 20,000 terabytes PER DAY. No start-up in the world is going to have the cash to process [...]