On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Luke Francl wrote:
> Ezra, that was a great post about what differentiates Engine Yard > from a regular VPS hosting company. > > Can anyone talk about the difference between the Engine Yard and > Joyent approaches? Judging from the web sites, Joyent Accelerators > and Engine Yard slices seem similar. > > http://www.joyent.com/accelerator/ > http://engineyard.com/whatyouget > > Regards, > > -- > Luke Francl > Luke- The biggest difference is in the level of customer support. We are fully managed, meaning you don't have to do any sysadmin work, just focus on writing your apps and let us worry about the deployment side. Also we are very tightly focused on Rails, our entire cluster architecture was built from the ground up with Rails in mind and is different from other offerings as a slice is more then just a virtual machine. The technical differences are there as well, accelerators run solaris, ey slices run our own custom gentoo linux build optimized for ruby. We use GFS for our shared filesystem which is posix compliant and doesn't have locking issues like NFS does. Joyent's accelerators are very nice and solaris has some compelling features, but the accelerators are only basic building blocks, you still have to plan your cluster, install and configure the packages yourself and admin them on your own or pay extra to get them to do it. EY is an end to end complete solution where everything needed for running rails apps in a clustered scale on demand environment is setup for you before you get access to your slices with your app already running. You don't have to do any sysadmin work yourself if you don't want, but you still have full ssh access with sudo rights if you like to be closer to the metal So if you have your own sysadmin type and you like solaris then the accelerators are a great option. But if you don't want to keep a sysadmin on staff and you don't want one of your developers spending a good portion of their time on sysadmin tasks then EY slices might save you some money. Good sysadmins are expensive so when you factor into the equation the money you will save by not needing one then our setup becomes very attractive. Cheers- -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz -- Lead Rails Evangelist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting -- (866) 518-YARD (9273) -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz -- Lead Rails Evangelist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting -- (866) 518-YARD (9273) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
