Amazon’s web services business has sparked a number of business opportunities. Using EC2 and S3 is not especially easy for a beginner, but scalable web architectures aren’t a place for the weak hearted geek.
Enter Scalr. This is an open source project meant to make building a scalable, fault tolerant system on Amazon’s services [...]
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Scalr - Scalable Hosting Framework for Amazon Web Services
July 2nd, 2008 No Comments
Tags: cloud computing · hosting
A Few More Thoughts On Morph Exchange
April 26th, 2008 3 Comments
I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application - it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of the simplicity of deployment on Morph Exchange I decided to deploy the application on their platform. I don’t [...]
Tags: deployment · hosting · morphexchange
Elastic Cloud Computing
April 8th, 2008 4 Comments
One of the most difficult tasks when putting up a new site is picking the right host. Moving hosts later on is terribly difficult so choosing the correct hosting company is as important as selecting a business partner. I’ve collected about 30 hosting companies in my delicious bookmarks. Some are specific to [...]
Tags: 3tera · cloud computing · ec2 · elastra · mosso · rightscale · ruby_on_rails · scalability










