Gotta give a big ++ for RailsMachine. Bradley is the man...I've had to learn some linux but it was necessary skills to learn
On 3/24/07, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
