By: Garretsonr

Garretsonr — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:47:43 +0000

I don’t know if this would have generated any red flags prior to SimpleCDN’s abrupt outage, but part of the service provider vetting process should be real-time performance monitoring, which can be done free for the major IaaS and PaaS providers at CloudSleuth.net. The Global Provider View [A href="https://cloudsleuth.net/web/guest/global-provider-view">blog post"]monitors performance of the major cloud providers[/A] in real-time worldwide, and also offers a Cloud Performance Analyzer that tests the performance of three major CDNs (CDNetworks, EdgeCast and Amazon’s CloudFront) against a benchmark of Amazon EC2 with no assist from a CDN. The tools are based on the Gomez Performance Network, which isn’t free, but is a cost-effective way to measure and vet these providers before there’s an incident like the SimpleCDN outage. --Rob [A href="http://bit.ly/garretsonr"]About me[/A]

By: Garretsonr

Garretsonr — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:44:28 +0000

I don’t know if this would have generated any red flags prior to SimpleCDN’s abrupt outage, but part of the service provider vetting process should be real-time performance monitoring, which can be done free for the major IaaS and PaaS providers at CloudSleuth.net. The Global Provider View blog post>monitors performance of the major cloud providers in real-time worldwide, and also offers a Cloud Performance Analyzer that tests the performance of three major CDNs (CDNetworks, EdgeCast and Amazon’s CloudFront) against a benchmark of Amazon EC2 with no assist from a CDN. The tools are based on the Gomez Performance Network, which isn’t free, but is a cost-effective way to measure and vet these providers before there’s an incident like the SimpleCDN outage. --Rob About me

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