Thanks for your reply :) Well as I understand when instance dies you could lose your static ip and you can lose all your data on the instance?
So I also need to find another service to host the database. But I understand that all those type of issues can be fixed by using Rightscale or maybe Engine Yard. They handle the notification when instance die and create another one for you with all the data it needs? Conrad Taylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jamal Soueidan > <li...@ruby-forum.com>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm thinking to move my app to ec2, but Im reading that amazon does not >> guarantee that my instance doesn't die? >> >> So my question how can people use it for rails, and what does they do >> when the amazon ec2 instance dies? > > Do we have any automatic job to get >> new instance and get the app up and running again with all the gems >> etc.? >> > > Amazon EC2 has excellent uptime and I usually go with a minimum of 2 > instances. > Furthermore, you can set it up so that it automatically spins-up a new > instance when one dies or sends a notification so that you can perform a > manually boot. Next, Amazon is very different from your traditional > hosting > companies because they charge by the hour for each active instance. > Thus, > in order for them to make money, the active instance needs to be > running. > Otherwise, they will loose money. > > You can find many gems on gemcutter.org for interfacing with Amazon EC2 > as > well as their other services. For a current listing of AMIs, I would > recommend directing those questions to Amazon. Lastly, there are > alternatives for using EC2 like Engine Yard and Rightscale to name a > few. > Also, there are other architectures like Google App Engine. Thus, I > would > recommend doing your research as well as test driving these different > systems. > > Good luck, > > -Conrad > > Thanks for any comment :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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-t...@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.
