[LRUG] Hosting on EC2?

[wendy]

Hi Tom,

You may be interested in these podcasts:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/cloud-grid/cloudcamp-google-appengine-amazon-ec2-flexiscale
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/cloud-grid/hadoop-on-amazon-s3ec2

wendy


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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