We've been contacted by several hosting providers, and right now, Rackspace seems pretty nice.
The problem isn't that we don't have failover here, it's that we store all repositories on a single EBS volume. This has worked great for us in the past, but as of last night, that volume has become virtually unavailable to us. It doesn't matter which instance we mount it on, the throughput we get from it is excruciating.
If, or at this point--when, we move, the disk architecture will look different, and general failover will be less of an issue.
Amazon has for the past 8-10 hours been investigating the issue, and we're left pretty dumbfounded as of to what has happened exactly. I'll summarize everything in a blog post once the chaos is over.
The problem isn't that we don't have failover here, it's that we store all repositories on a single EBS volume. This has worked great for us in the past, but as of last night, that volume has become virtually unavailable to us. It doesn't matter which instance we mount it on, the throughput we get from it is excruciating.
If, or at this point--when, we move, the disk architecture will look different, and general failover will be less of an issue.
Amazon has for the past 8-10 hours been investigating the issue, and we're left pretty dumbfounded as of to what has happened exactly. I'll summarize everything in a blog post once the chaos is over.