Last week I completed the move of a web site hosted on a physical server to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. The experience was educational to say the least and so far I’m pretty happy with things. I’ll post a follow-up after I’ve had a few more weeks of experience with it. In the meantime, [...]

Damn. Gmail won’t give me my contact data at the moment. I need to ship a Christmas gift and I can’t get the address. This highlights an important facet of storing data in the cloud. Have a backup. In this instance, I fail (no backup) and I’ll have to wait. A similar incident a few [...]