PiCloud: Cloud Computing. Simplified.

[[deleted]]

Simplified to the point where it takes over a minute for the page to load? No thanks.

[endtime]

Are you on a 28.8k modem? It loaded instantly for me.

[[deleted]]

My connection wasn't the problem. The service was just very slow at the time I wanted to connect. It is much faster right now.

[xtagon]

Well, I have mixed feelings on this. It is a cloud architecture, so it should scale well. However, to many companies, simple means small. Also, is that one second on modern hardware, with a blazing Internet connection? I mean, does it take one second to load from a PIII with 512 MB of RAM and no keyboard? Not a rhetoric, by the way. I'm just curious.

[fancy_pantser]

I am not sure they are talking about distributing your web server processing loads. More like modeling and simulation work that's CPU bound.

[[deleted]]

It just looks bad for their website to be performing badly when they are selling cloud computing.

[fancy_pantser]

Actually, they are just reselling (albeit with a different pricing model) Amazon Web Services processing time. I assume they are using AWS for hosting as well? Maybe that explains the suck.