RightScale is good solution but very expensive, a cheaper alternative is using Scalr (scalr.net) and they have both a free version (open source) as well as a paid service (scalr.net being the paid service, only $50/month + Amazon fees). Both RightScale and Scalr are considered cloud management tools and they work very well with Amazon Web Services (EC2/S3/EBS...) RightScale feature set is richer than Scalr.
You should keep in mind that Amazon is not the only kid in the game (in the PaaS - platform as a Service). There is also GoGrid and Rackspace (with their cloud offering options). Finally, there is a new breed of rails hosting solutions: Heroku and EngineYard (Solo/Flex). They provide free trials of their services and a wide range of plans. Heroku uses Amazon's servers while Engine Yard uses Joyent. If you use Aptana's IDE for rails development, they also provide a cloud hosting offering (AptanaCloud). So there are tons of options. The problem is that there is a wide range of expertise required for rails deployment. If you want to deal the least with server configuration, I would strongly suggest a service like Heroku (they even have github integration). I havent used EngineYard's but their Solo offering seems quite good for development/testing as well. The moment you need production-ready features then you have to start paying for more in both Heroku/ EngineYard's offerings. - Ricardo On Aug 15, 8:01 pm, Conrad Taylor <conra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Jeff Pritchard < > > > > > > rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote: > > > A search of this forum for "cloud" brought up a pretty anemic and mostly > > year or more old list of stuff. That was a bit of a surprise to me. > > > I'm interested in getting opinions on the easiest way to deploy a Rails > > app to a well known (S3 or similar) "cloud" server. > > > It should be something with little or no "installation" or > > "establishment" fees and no monthly fees...just the per/megabyte traffic > > fees. > > > Would be great if deployment was via capistrano, just like a VM or > > dedicated server would be. > > > Has anyone made this cheap and easy yet? Or do you still have to roll > > your own implementation using API's that were designed to be general in > > nature and thus requiring significant development effort to get it > > deployed? > > > thanks, > > jp > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > I am using Rightscale and I'm very happy with the Rails integration. BTW, > Rightscale is a front-end to Amazon Services (i.e. EC2, S3, Cloudfront, and > so on). Also, it costs a bit more for their service in addition to Amazon > charges > but it was well worth it for our business. This will be common with the > other > front-ends to Amazon. > > Furthermore, I'm very pleased with the ability to have better control as to > what's > going on with my server instances. Also, if you're publishing a lot of > media assets > and the site has a great deal of traffic, then I would recommend having some > CDN functionality within your sites' configuration. Hulu.com would be a > very good > example of the use of a CDN and Rails. > > When I was in Japan, I noticed that every Japanese site was extremely fast > being > that my connection speed was 1 Giga bit per second. However, it was a > sudden > drop-off when accessing sites in the US that didn't have a local CDN. Thus, > you should > use a CDN where it makes sense for creating the best user experience. > > Next, I would first focus on building solid Rails website architecture > before thinking about > scaling a site that doesn't exist by using the cloud. Once the site has > been built, then > you can make better decisions on how to properly scale your site. For > examples, there are > tools that can easily allow one to simulate N concurrent users across > multiple servers > > Lastly, it doesn't matter which option you select you'll have to pay for any > high-traffic site > that uses a lot of bandwidth. Thus, you may also want to take a look at > Google App Engine. > > Good luck, > > -Conrad > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
