Here at Chaordix, our “cloud” experiences go way back to the early days of Amazon AWS. In the beginning (circa 2006), we had a few hosted servers at Rackspace. Later Amazon announced EC2, their first “cloud” servers. We flirted a little by installing one of our sites on an EC2 instance to see how it…
A few weeks ago, the Chaordix crew headed to Mount Royal University (MRU) to listen to a talk being given my Chris Anderson. Chris is editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, and is probably known most for his book, The Long Tail.
However, Chris was not at MRU to talk about The Long Tail, or his newest book, FREE. He was there to talk about his latest Wired magazine article about next industrial revolution – In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits.
Back in the olden days of Cambrian House, before “the cloud”, we, as with most startups, used hosting providers to host our sites. This was typically costly, often requiring a long-term contract, and often took days to get a server provisioned. Being a startup, money was always a concern, and having to sign long-term contracts…