Hi Chris, just wondering if you're still using Open EDX on Azure and if it's still working OK for you? Or did you switch to AWS in the mean time?
Op dinsdag 8 december 2015 21:33:16 UTC+1 schreef Chris Zoellick: > > Honestly in general I would just prefer to use AWS as that appears to be > the target environment that the core development team uses. I'm sure Google > Cloud would work very well, but I often wonder what if anything I'm missing > out from by not using AWS when I see various AWS references in > configuration scripts, etc. To be fair though, it's more of a preference > driven by ignorance of the inner workings of the configuration stack and a > reluctance to prioritize that on my list of things to learn about EdX. > > Chris > > On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 1:15:17 PM UTC-5, Abhi wrote: >> >> Thank you Chris, but would you have any specific reasons for choosing AWS >> over Google Compute Engine? AWS seems to be more popular, but just >> wondering if Google's infrastructure that holds all of Google Data may be a >> better cloud service. Also I have been given to understand that Google >> Compute Engine may be cheaper. Also I do not understand what is meant by >> Sidd Maini's comment when he says that the Bitnami stack "does not >> include xqwatcher, xqueue services for grading purposes". I am using the >> Bitnami stack on Google Compute Engine. >> >> On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:13:25 UTC+5:30, Chris Zoellick wrote: >>> >>> We're using Azure here successfully. >>> >>> We have a single front-end server on a 'Standard D2 (2 Cores, 7 GB >>> memory)' VM. The lower tier VM we started with didn't have enough RAM to >>> meet the needs of various components of the full stack and we experienced >>> memory-related failures as we got things going. I definitely recommend >>> following the minimum memory recommendation guidance :). >>> >>> I've seen at least one advanced module that is set up for S3 storage >>> from AWS, but doesn't appear to have an Azure storage equivalent. >>> >>> If it weren't for credit we get towards Azure from our MSDN >>> subscription, I would have gone with AWS. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 9:41:42 AM UTC-4, Sidd Maini wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I have a question about running Open Edx on the EC2 cloud using the >>>> Amazon EC2 AMI's provided by Edx at >>>> https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/Single-AWS-server-installation-using-Amazon-Machine-Image >>>> >>>> and https://bitnami.com/stack/edx/cloud/amazon >>>> The Edx configuration contains the Kifli release, which I am unable to >>>> find to which I'd assume that people are using the Bitnami EC2 AMI's. >>>> >>>> 1. Is it secure, reliable, and stable to run Open Edx on EC2? I >>>> would like to know people's experience running it. >>>> 2. Does EC2 automatically take care of scalability? >>>> 3. How many servers would I need to host two small courses? I think >>>> Feanil Patel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITMwNto82eE) mentioned >>>> a small scale local deployment of two servers >>>> 4. Any estimate of costs using Amazon EC2? >>>> 5. Anybody used Google or Azure cloud for hosting? >>>> >>>> Thank You, >>>> Sidd >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/f28c7972-c4da-4a78-8ec9-2cd22cf70470%40googlegroups.com.
