[Rails] Re: EC2 -> EBS -> S3 ?

2009-08-14 Thread bill walton
Hi Trausti, On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 21:06 +0200, Trausti Thor Johannsson wrote: > Not trying to offend you, really. No offense taken, Trausti. Really. > But how about getting big before planning sharding ? Agreed, at least as far as 'we won't need to do it for a good long while.' I was jus

[Rails] Re: EC2 -> EBS -> S3 ?

2009-08-14 Thread Trausti Thor Johannsson
Not trying to offend you, really. But how about getting big before planning sharding ? You can get really big with just tweaking mysql on a 4 core server and then you can have loads of memory and eventually you can keep everything in memory. Then you can cache the site, and then you can put varn

[Rails] Re: EC2 -> EBS -> S3 ?

2009-08-14 Thread bill walton
Forgot to mention... The database growth plan is to use sharding rather than clustering. So any experience with software 'load-balancing' front-ends that direct to an app instance based on subdomain rather than / in addition to availability would be very helpful. Thanks again, Bill On Fri, 200