Comments on: Flooding, a weeklong outage, and EC2 http://hobu.biz/2008/06/24/flooding-a-weeklong-outage-and-ec2/ Geospatial News from Iowa Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:50:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: SEWilco http://hobu.biz/2008/06/24/flooding-a-weeklong-outage-and-ec2/#comment-4326 SEWilco Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:44:54 +0000 http://hobu.biz/?p=276#comment-4326 I noticed Wisconsin put together a map showing flooding road closures. You might examine whether Iowa did anything similar...it's not related to your ISP's issues, but you might need the info to get around. Particularly if it happens again. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/06/map-of-wisconsin-road-closures.html I noticed Wisconsin put together a map showing flooding road closures. You might examine whether Iowa did anything similar…it’s not related to your ISP’s issues, but you might need the info to get around. Particularly if it happens again.
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/06/map-of-wisconsin-road-closures.html

]]> By: Paul Ramsey http://hobu.biz/2008/06/24/flooding-a-weeklong-outage-and-ec2/#comment-4282 Paul Ramsey Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:39:42 +0000 http://hobu.biz/?p=276#comment-4282 I'm sooooo cheap... That I host www.cleverelephant.ca on the Google Pages area that comes with my Google Apps account ($50/year), the blog on blogger (blog.cleverelephant.ca) and all the big files on S3 (s3.cleverelephant.ca). DNS all done with zoneedit.com. So far I haven't deployed anything non-static, so having a "real system" hasn't been an issue. Anything I want to demo to clients I just run on the home computer until the demo period is over. Back in Refractions days, we maintained one server at netnation.com offsite for anything we wanted to be online continuously. Reasonable prices, bigger than mom'n'pop. Still, when the 500 year earthquake hits, I imagine they will go down. If I'm not buried under the rubble, I might even care. I’m sooooo cheap…

That I host http://www.cleverelephant.ca on the Google Pages area that comes with my Google Apps account ($50/year), the blog on blogger (blog.cleverelephant.ca) and all the big files on S3 (s3.cleverelephant.ca). DNS all done with zoneedit.com. So far I haven’t deployed anything non-static, so having a “real system” hasn’t been an issue. Anything I want to demo to clients I just run on the home computer until the demo period is over.

Back in Refractions days, we maintained one server at netnation.com offsite for anything we wanted to be online continuously. Reasonable prices, bigger than mom’n'pop. Still, when the 500 year earthquake hits, I imagine they will go down. If I’m not buried under the rubble, I might even care.

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