Michael-
I think you are correct. RailsMachine is a great service if you want
to admin your own VPS's and configure things yourself. Bradley has
written the railsmachine gem to make most of the setup easy as pie.
Engine Yard on the other hand is more expensive but that is mainly
because we are a fully managed end to end rails solution. This means
that we manage every aspect of the servers and you don't really have
to ssh in ever if you don't want to. Of course you do have ssh with
sudo rights for when you do want to log in. When we setup an account
we will get your svn repo and gems your app needs and fully configure
and deploy your application before we deliver the keys to the slices
and your custom deploy.rb file to you. So when you get the keys to
your account, you can run cap deploy at will.
Our setup is also fully clustered, meaning their is 2 or more of
every single piece of hardware so everything is redundant right down
to the power supplies. All slices live behind hardware load balancers
that can handle the ssl decryption so your slice doesn;t have to. The
db,mail, svn, dns and other services run in their own clusters and
are managed by us so your slices only run your mongrel cluster and
nginx.
All that being said, I think RailsMachine is an awesome service, you
will have a hard time finding better unmanaged rails vps's then the
ones at railsmachine.
Cheers-
-- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
-- Lead Rails Evangelist
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting
-- (866) 518-YARD (9273)
On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Michael Slater wrote:
>
> I've also been happy with Rails Machine. I started with one VPS and
> now have three. Bradley's support has been terrific and the price/
> performance for my needs is very good.
>
> Rails Machine provides excellent, independent VPS slices (or dedicated
> boxes). Their "cluster", however, is just multiple of these, which it
> is up to you to configure. If you want fail-over, you need to set up
> DRBD to mirror the systems. The database runs on the same box as
> Apache/Mongrel in the standard Rails Machine setup. A three-VPS setup
> is around $200/month.
>
> Engine Yard takes this to another level. They have hardware load
> balancers, and the DB runs on its own cluster, mail on its own server,
> etc. You get better redundancy and load balancing without having to
> set all that up yourself. BUT - it is much more expensive. A three-
> slice setup (two for production, one for staging) at Engine Yard is
> $900/month.
>
> I've found that I had to learn a fair amount of Linux sysadmin to deal
> with the Rails Machine VPS effectively. I don't know if there would be
> more or less of this needed with Engine Yard.
>
> That's what I've gleaned, in any case -- Ezra, Bradley, please chime
> in if I've misunderstood any of this.
>
> Michael Slater
> at Rails Machine: www.mslater.com, www.newhorizonschool.info,
> www.doyleparkfamilymedicine.com
>
> On Mar 19, 6:00 am, Mike Dershowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> s.net> wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> What does the community think about railsmachine as a service? Their
>> service looks pretty good. Anyone had any good/bad experience?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
> >
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