Leese Internet Technology

I’m not an economist – just a small business owner out here trying to earn a living. I noticed about 8 months ago that things were slowing down, but no one was talking about recession back then. So with an 8 month lag, here we are and business is picking up. Not so much for our retail clients but for
business to business services, things are chugging along nicely. It will be interesting to see how Q1 of 2009 goes. I know I’ll be watching and participating with eager interest.

Well, the more i have played around with setting up instances in “the cloud” the more I have liked it. Simple enough and completely scalable as necessary. The next step is to have load-balancing going on and robust database servers backing it all up. For almost every application we build, databases are a vital part of the solution – but if we just needed to serve up media or throw cpu cycles at generating/processing video – its definitely the way to go. You can run pretty much any platform you like and only when you need it. Its brilliant and I am still discovering all the ways we can use this and offer it to our smaller clients. We considered using it for our SVN repositories, but anything like that (with versioning and dynamic data) is probably not a great candidate. Although it allows us to get our setup right and build out some cool implementations that are robust and powerful and take them back offline while we work out the kinks. Nice.