[LRUG] Hosting on EC2?

[Paul Doerwald]

Heh. One thing you should be aware of is that you can now get your  
instances back. EC2 now has an option to keep the EC2 image on S3.

A better approach IMO would still be to program for failure of your  
EC2 instance and to automatically restore the EC2 instance's database  
from backups on S3, which presumably you're creating every 5-15  
minutes. (or something like that, depending on your risk tolerance).

Paul.


On 12-Aug-08, at 8:05 AM, Tom Taylor wrote:

> Has anyone had any experience of Rails hosting on Amazon EC2?
>
> We're building a thingy for Big Corp. EC2 is (bizarrely) one of  
> their approved hosting options. Considering all the other hosting  
> options are .NET 'specialists' and look very scared when we mention  
> Rails, EC2 might be least painful option.
>
> I understand that you need to have two instances with Master-Master  
> database replication because you never get your instances back as  
> you left 'em when/if they go down. What else do I need to be aware of?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
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