Erlang on Solaris x86

[Joel Reymont]

On Aug 30, 2006, at 7:00 AM, ke han wrote:

> BTW, I TextDrive might sell you containers on their Niagra servers  
> as well as what they currently advertise for their Opteron ones.  I  
> sent a few rounds of email with one of their sales people on this.

Is there a particular advantage to the Niagara servers with Erlang?  
Is this tried and true or just hypothetical?

> My only problem was I can get more horsepower from my own dedicated  
> server than with the current pricing on the TextDrive containers

How did you figure this out? I looked at serverbeach.com and for 250/ 
mo you get a bare server. Do you mean that it starts to become  
expensive as you scale up?

I'm also trying to find a contact at Amazon to get on the EC2 beta.  
For 70/mo per virtual server that would be ideal! Anyone with contacts?

> (there are obviously other benefits to their container solution  
> than raw horsepower of your own dedicated server

What are the advantages that you see?

> but I was worried about their cost structure as my app needed more  
> resource).

You mean 250 + 250 + 250? They do seem to take care of load-balancing  
for you, I think, if you have multiple containers.

	Thanks, Joel

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