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joevandyk on Nov 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heroku Postgres: SQL Database-as-a-Service

I wouldn't use EBS. Instance storage is much more consistent, in terms of latency and performance.

jaylevitt on Nov 23, 2011 [–]

I didn't realize that; in fact, I thought I saw something that claimed the opposite. It'd be great to see someone write up a HOWTO for WAL-E and PG9 replication on ephemeral stores in EC2.

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