[LRUG] Rails in the wonderful, wonderful Cloud

[Steven Mohapi-Banks]

I have to give another thumbs up to Slicehost, although they're not a  
cloud provider. Rackspace, their parent company is probably worth a look

Steve.

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On 1 Oct 2009, at 15:09, toby privett <tobyprivett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used both Railsmachine and Slicehost for client projects. The  
> former offer a nifty deployment gem, but extra ram etc gets very  
> pricey.
>
> Slicehost have been great. You have to spend a little time setting  
> up the box but the guides they have are comprehensive and I've not  
> had any trouble. One plus is the ease of cloning your slice through  
> the control panel. While it's not a managed service, I do get the  
> idea they're "on top of it". They DOS issues a while ago. Other  
> than, it's been a smooth ride. And the price is right.
>
>
> Hello, a quick question on this sunny autumnal morning. A client of  
> ours is looking to move their Rails app into the cloud both for  
> future scalability and redundancy reasons (the recent 20 minute  
> outage due to their current host's network issues being the  
> proximate cause).
>
> Can anyone recommend, or recommend avoiding, any virtualised  
> platforms? I'm aware of Engine Yard and Heroku (both of which are  
> EC2 based I believe), and it seems Rackspace has a product now too.  
> We've used Joyent in the past but found their customer service  
> pretty woeful. The client's budget is £250/US$400 per month; a manag 
> ed solution would be preferable if budget allows.
>
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