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Zeus Load Balancer is a Good Product
Zeus ZXTM is a very good layer 7 software load balancer. It has great performance and great features, including ability to cache content (with an optional module). It has only one downside: it is expensive. If you can afford it, highly recommended.
One advantage of platform-as-a-service is cost savings on things like these: even though a ZXTM instance can push a gigabit per second or more of bandwidth, small sites need less than that, yet still have the cost of a full license. Platform computing solutions provide a way to effectively buy fractional licenses for technologies: whether a load balancer, a database license, or something else.
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Richard L. Burton III
It seems as if you're developing product that's similar to AppEngine. I came across your company via a contact on linkedin.com and wanted to get an idea of how you see it competing with Amazon and Google?
Best Regards,
Richard L. Burton III
dwight
See the post Platform vs Cloud for how we view Amazon.
Regarding Google, yes, AppEngine is very much in the same space as 10gen. There will be many differences between the two products. The database technology, and programming languages supported are quite different. Additionally, our goal is to share the 10gen technology very openly.
Richard L. Burton III
Cloud computing and "Platform as a service" is definitely the new wave. With websites like Digg (The Digg Factor, previously known as the Slashdot factor), it's important to be able to accommodate instantaneous growth in traffic.
This year I attended the Google IO conference in California, while there I spoke to some core developers that work on the AppEngine and they've hinted to the idea of supporting new languages in the future.
Google's data store uses their proprietary 'database' called BigTable which in some respects awesome, but in orders kind of annoying. What kind of backing store does 10Gen intend to support? The name from the about page makes me think of Google's BigTable or the Open-Source projects HBase and Hypertable.
My last two questions, excuse me from being inquisitive, do you intend to support Java and what would be the pricing model?
Richard L. Burton III
dwight
We'll try to post information on all these subjects over the next week or so.
Ryan
What about the Linux Virtual Server?
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
dwight
I believe (but could be wrong) that LVS is layer 3 only.