If you're app is a facebook app, you could look at Joyent's facebook developer offering - they offer the first year for free on their cloud - http://www.joyentcloud.com/developers/free-facebook-developer-program/
Otherwise, I'd be looking at Heroku for easy cloud based rails infrastructure - you can scale very easily as your load increases which helps manage costs. EngineYard is also nice but much more expensive (they've shifted their focus to enterprise). -Michael On Mar 2, 10:16 pm, JINDOU <jindou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I totally agree. > One project is social media based... eg. Facebook app > I think it'll catch on based on early testing... > So I'm just wanting to be cautious. > > The other we've had the server overload a few times in our seed launch > with no marketing. Soon we will be getting our users to send to their > mailing list... and the current numbers suggest 100 x 1000 = 100,000 > hits to the site for this first campaign. > Again I just want to be prepared for the worst. :( > > The cloud option looks the best to me. > > On Mar 2, 9:02 am, Jeromy Evans <jeromy.ev...@blueskyminds.com.au> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Jindou, > > > I hadn't seen this mentioned yet so I'll say it. There's another > > school of thought that you should launch any way, before spending > > money re-architecting for scale. If you redesign now, you're spending > > money and time on an assumption you'll get outrageous traffic, rather > > than spending that time and getting in front of customers. The latter > > is more important and the scale problem is easier to solve when you > > have real customers and know where the bottlenecks are. > > > Of course, if you already have a massive mailing list or eager users > > and expect media coverage you need to be prepared. If I were starting > > *from scratch* today, I'd go with the cloud option. > > > regards, > > Jeromy Evanshttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromyevans -- 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
