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Posted by SecureZone, 04-19-2007, 11:25 PM
Seems Mosso is having some issues at the moment. I do not use them for anything production, but I do have a free account with them as a beta tester, and I keep some personal stuff there... and it is down. I am getting anything from "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request." to simple "connection timed out" Just goes to show, clustered hosting is not ready for prime time.

Posted by ashworth102680, 03-04-2008, 10:03 PM
Seems they're having issues again now. Down since: 2008-03-04 18:42:40 We're experiencing the 100% exact same issue... No suitable nodes are available to serve your request.

Posted by Ryan Williams, 03-05-2008, 09:49 AM
It doesn't say anything at all about clustered hosting being or not being ready for prime time. A number of reliable hosts such as Cartika have been employing clustered solutions for a long time. And of course most of the really big websites out there have their own dedicated clustered architechture. All it says is that Mosso's implementation is flawed. Sorry if you didn't mean to imply all clustered hosting is poor, but it seemed like it. Such FUD shouldn't be spread.

Posted by utropicmedia-karl, 03-05-2008, 10:56 AM
Incorrect. If you work with professional engineers, clustering is the _only_ answer for production applications. Regards,

Posted by Biju, 03-05-2008, 11:32 AM
Yea and they are Rackspace company.

Posted by utropicmedia-karl, 03-05-2008, 11:49 AM
And that means what exactly? So Mosso uses rackspace, and Mosso has issues. What does that tell you? We've had a handful of clients come from rackspace in the last 6 months. Your point? Regards,

Posted by RossH, 03-05-2008, 12:28 PM
This is being discussed on their forums, as always you can check http://status.mosso.com

Posted by cartika-andrew, 03-05-2008, 04:25 PM
First off, thanks to some in this thread for their comments (Karl and Ryan in paritcular). I do agree, these sorts of comments arent appropriate.... I am sorry to hear you are having issues with Mosso - but, I would say their problems are more related to their allocation rates:price points and their engineering vs clustering. Clustering is THE standard in any legitimate enterprise environment - and has been for years. Clustering has been ready and has been used in prime time almost since the dawn of hosting. I remember when we started offering clustered hosting services, we were slammed on these forums because it offered nothing better then single server hosting, no added benefits, etc... People finally realized this was all BS and clustering started to become more widely adapted in this industry. The real issue is that people utilize "clusters" or "grids" or "clouds" or whatever the heck they want to market - to try and justify how they could offer these massive packages more reliably then their competitors. Certainly clustering can accomodate greater resource allocations (within reason) over single server environments - however, there is no technology available that can accomodate TB's of allocation for $10-$100 in a shared hosting environment - it simply does not exist. Please do not blame clustering, blame bad business models... If clustering is used to increase reliability, performance, resiliency, scalability - it is a 100% proven technology and certainly more feasible then single server environments - however, this all goes out the window if your allocation rates:price points ratio gets too far out of whack...



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