Hi Nicholas,
I have used EngineYard for about 6 years, yes, on their AWS cloud offering, I can’t remember what it’s called, public cloud? They change it’s name every couple of years. I’d previously used their private cloud offering, when they ran their own servers, that was awesome but extremely expensive. If you want it*, I’d seriously look at something like cloudbees or another IaaS provider that does auto-scaling. I don’t believe EY will do that, but it’s fairly trivial to hit the + button to add another instance to your stack, and far more predictable in terms of cost (if your load isn’t too spiky). Tom * I’m not sure that you do, but you know your use case better than me :) — tom adams | e:[email protected] On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Tom, > More or less, we don't want to think about the finer points of scalability > and want a platform that will do that for us. Being automatic is part of it. > So you're using EngineYard? Is there a particular product offering you use? > Thanks for the response! > Cheers, > Nicholas > On Thursday, November 20, 2014 10:20:13 AM UTC+11, Tom Adams wrote: >> >> By “transparent” do you mean “automatic”? >> >> Engine Yard (their public cloud offering) are a step above you hosting it >> yourself on AWS, it’s essentially them doing it for you, but you get a >> bunch of tools that help with that. They do have other options, but I don’t >> have recent experience with those. >> >> Netflix open sourced a management tool a while back, you could use this if >> you wanted to do things yourself. >> >> The other option I’d suggest is cloudbees, I know one of the founders & >> they’re doing great stuff, though I believe it’s more JVM than Ruby focused >> (again, my first hand information is 18 months out of date). >> >> Tom >> >> — >> tom adams | e:[email protected] <javascript:> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We're interested in looking beyond Heroku and Ninefold for a PaaS that >>> can support and transparently scale a Rails app.. Are there any >>> recommendations. What is Engineyard like these days? >>> >>> All of the Rails hosting I've been involved with lately has been self >>> maintained on AWS or Rackspace. We're thinking we'll have to take this >>> route, probably on Google Cloud (where all of our other services are >>> running) but this will mean supporting it ourselves. We'd prefer not to, at >>> this stage, and a great PaaS would be welcome. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nicholas >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <javascript:>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
