Quora Is Down, and They're "Not Pointing Fingers at EC2"

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I have been debating where to put the servers for our startup -- Rackspace is looking better and better.

Scheduling backups and setting up DNS is certainly easier on Rackspace.

Despite the fact that my site has been down for 3 hours, I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup.

Just don't use EBS.

It seems like the AWS outages are happing more and more frequently -- didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?

> didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?

Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.

Scary. I actually remember those TV segments from my childhood. 0_0

And I'm feeling better that I decided to go with Rackspace instead of EC2.