What a cool site. Is heroku similar to cloud hosting right? Their costs are a bit on the high side?
On Mar 1, 8:00 am, Charles Ma <chuck...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you're not comfortable managing the up time of your own VPS, might I > suggest using heroku (http://heroku.com/) with two or more dynos (app > processes handling request), they manage all the scaling and load balancing > for you while you focus on developing your application rather than worrying > about its uptime. > > They're a bit different to a VPS solution in that your app will be running > on a read only file system, so you'll need your database and user uploaded > content on e.g. amazon RDS and S3 respectively. Heroku provides lots of add > on options to have your database and static content hosted, so it's usually > not an issue. > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Dylan Jay <d...@pretaweb.com> wrote: > > A CDN is only going to take load away from static file revolted which > > unless that's mainly what your sited do, is rarely the issue. Most > > apps need to be scaled on the application server level, either by > > making every page request as quick as possible or having more machines > > to handle the requests. It comes down to the performance profile of > > your app. This should be something you devs / devops should already be > > aware of. > > > Dylan Jay > > Technical solution manager > > PretaWeb 99552830 > > > On 28/02/2011, at 11:56 PM, JINDOU <jindou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > we are about to launch 2 products to the market. But are RoR based. > > > > Something that I am worried about is both projects are hosted with > > > Hostgator on a VPS account. > > > When we launch we do not want the servers to go down... however I have > > > not much experience in this? > > > > I know of Amazon Web Services and Akamai.. but not sure what other > > > people think of CDN solutions? > > > > Has anyone launched projects before and solved this issue? Any advice > > > and recommendations would be very very very helpful! > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > > Australia mailing list. > > > > Guidelines on discussion: > >http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e13... > > > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > > Australia mailing list. > > > Guidelines on discussion: > >http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e13... > > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
