Re:How we got hosted, the Rails way
by ph on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @08:58PM
(#4034)
Amazon (and others) will sell you time on a massive grid. Amazon's is called Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and it seems like it might be a good alternative to a VPS -- the elasticity of each instance would be a boon to a quickly growing web service.
I am currently developing my startup's software on a dedicated server running FreeBSD, and I am paying some attention to making it so it will scale (probably in a load balanced cluster).
To this end, I have set up FreeBSD jails (low overhead chrooted full installs) so that I can test splitting up the application in various ways.
I would imagine that a transparent grid system would reduce the need to worry about scalability issues for many uses.
Re:How we got hosted, the Rails way
by naish on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @11:40AM
(#4135)
EC2 is intriguing; however. it is only available to a limited number of beta testers. The waiting list appears to be lengthy... I'm not counting on gaining access any time soon.
I am currently developing my startup's software on a dedicated server running FreeBSD, and I am paying some attention to making it so it will scale (probably in a load balanced cluster).
To this end, I have set up FreeBSD jails (low overhead chrooted full installs) so that I can test splitting up the application in various ways.
I would imagine that a transparent grid system would reduce the need to worry about scalability issues for many uses.