I have a few Cloud Server OS X now. http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/mac-hosting.aspx?ci=18037
Is cheap, works great and it is OS X, easy to use and install. On 2010/11/27, at 17:36, David LeBer wrote: > > On 2010-11-26, at 11:12 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote: > >> >> On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:50 PM, David LeBer wrote: >> >>> Nothing to chip in on EC2. >>> >>> But we've are really enjoying working with linodes from Linode.com. >> >> really? >> >> I'm of no particular preference, and certainly could switch, but I saw the >> wolastic image and it just seemed reliable. >> >> I can't imagine how anyone could complete a finished app deployment without >> configuring the apache right? Am I to setup another OS image for apache and >> website stuff? use wolastic image as just the app engine? >> >> Or, maybe I should ask how one might one get a new server setup on >> linode.com? If its easier, I'm up for it - now's the time, as I'm just >> starting the new system! > > Well with linode you get a vanilla Linux distribution of your choice (we use > Ubuntu 10.4 LTS) so you are responsible for setting it up yourself. > > Given that we deploy our apps with all frameworks embedded, the setup is > really just getting Java, Apache, and whatever db we need installed. That's > all documented, so I've not found it terribly arduous. Linode also offers a > "StackScript" system that allows you to create (or chose from a selection of > pre-existing) scripts that you can apply to your nodes when they are created. > So once you know what you need to do to create a new WO app host node you can > automate the process. > > The one caveat for using any VPS service is that they are often anemic when > it comes to RAM and storage. > > The route we've adopted is to create dedicated nodes for our services (i:e: > nodes that are sized for the app instances, another sized for the db, another > to run JavaMonitor, etc). VPSs work well if you scale horizontally (add > additional nodes to handle growth rather than expanding the individual node > sizes). > > In addition any apps that have a heavy requirement on resource vending > (images, media files etc) we've re-engineered to outsource that to S3. > > My recommendation is to analyze what you expect your app's resource and > bandwidth usage is going to be, what you expect the growth curve to look > like. Then use those numbers to calculate the costs based on EC2 + EBS, > Linode/SliceHost, or colocation to determine which is going to fit your needs > better. As always TANSTAAFL applies. > > ;david > > -- > David LeBer > Codeferous Software > 'co-def-er-ous' adj. Literally 'code-bearing' > site: http://codeferous.com > blog: http://davidleber.net > profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidleber > twitter: http://twitter.com/rebeld > -- > Toronto Area Cocoa / WebObjects developers group: > http://tacow.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/ken%40ksroom.com > > This email sent to k...@ksroom.com
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