Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-libcloud-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 87030 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2010 05:00:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2010 05:00:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 67001 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jun 2010 05:00:58 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-libcloud-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 66897 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jun 2010 05:00:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libcloud-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: libcloud@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list libcloud@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 66889 invoked by uid 99); 3 Jun 2010 05:00:56 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:00:56 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of solomon.hykes@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.47 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.212.47] (HELO mail-vw0-f47.google.com) (209.85.212.47) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:00:52 +0000 Received: by vws4 with SMTP id 4so4539896vws.6 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:00:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1CzHkk7jG55hYNkLBuxCiPMNQNyrm4fTJU98id/URGc=; b=Z4r2+HSwnsuh+vV1gw/GUlqTkKPbwAmHH9No5hw6pyGSSdqi5aprN80xbyQwTQy3/W kTF4YEfokTYIilMjo5tFvXZiLNEo8iKeovuRXwUl4fnty194HM5aEIh1ghzZYUZ86swT V+Ibm83kx9TCh62yX8D/j4Pspuv0GCK5+d2+s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=BxQPIJ4HCITINbFlt0uWyJ1Z1d6eKmbirqk+FvjFNU7eDXEOlhQsN/rluyIKKHKinl h6CiK3wXtKS/CMezWrIUV0FxPh1sqb5TTclWcpFA+NiflMfP2oKR8z/SAZvQSYzaanwF 2J5V5kACpHnGaGcykrSo8lx2VHctpV2ZOUSsQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.71.130 with SMTP id h2mr4082039qaj.90.1275541231258; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Sender: solomon.hykes@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.51.5 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 22:00:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <719DFC64-FC7B-450B-952C-CF474069F4E8@apache.org> <15B32FC6-97EE-4D7A-B467-4E92C6929064@apache.org> <2361C581-EF99-4019-AF27-0B8051BB591A@dislocatedday.com> <23E015F6-FAFF-467C-B9B8-E846D0144780@apache.org> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 22:00:31 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ytlTm0dk_MNkqzvmUJyydNTzGg4 Message-ID: From: Solomon Hykes To: libcloud@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [libcloud] pricing update thoughts Of course, but to quote Paul: "I'd like to do it on ASF resources". On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Dan Di Spaltro wrote: > S3 comes to mind, basically everything you described. > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Solomon Hykes wrot= e: > >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dan Di Spaltro wrote= : >> > I don't know enough about the DNS protocol, but are there limitations. >> =A0This >> > seems like a weird way to do it... Are we just doing it to be novel, o= r I >> > don't see why a typical webserver serving JSON (pretty well tested) se= t >> up >> > isn't good enough. >> >> The 2 things you get for free with DNS are 1. caching and 2. virtually >> unlimited scalability. >> >> I would evaluate how much work and money would be spent on >> implementing a cache system in libcloud and hosting a json file >> reliably. Depending on the answer, using DNS will make sense or not. >> Definitely no point in doing it for the sake of novelty. >> > > > > -- > Dan Di Spaltro > cloudkick.com co-founder > (408) 603-9137 >