[Arches] Re: Choosing a cloud service for Arches
Thanks, Vincent: another +1 for AWS... I can see a trend emerging! Thanks for your comments about the Postgres service on AWS, that's useful to know. regards David On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 15:23:48 UTC+1, Vincent Meijer wrote: > > Hi David, > > We at CVAST (University of South Florida) use AWS as well and had good > experiences with it so far. > There are people working for AWS that are dedicated to supporting > educational instances at no cost. I talk regularly with their account > manager and their solution architect. > > AWS also provides PostgreSQL as a service. We use it and so far it saved > me a lot of work configuring and hosting my own Postgres instance. > > Our Arches instances (not in production yet) run in Docker containers in > the AWS service called EC2 Container Service (ECS) > > Best, > Vincent > > > On Sunday, 20 August 2017 10:28:50 UTC-4, David Osborne wrote: >> >> Does anyone using a cloud implementation of Arches have recommendations >> for choosing a provider? For our project, I'm considering Amazon AWS, >> Google's Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. This is a new installation, so >> there are no legacy systems to be considered. In the past, I've read about >> AWS but I don't yet know very much about Google's offering. At the >> university where I work, we're starting to deploy some new services in >> Azure, so I've had a little more exposure to that and it does seem to offer >> some useful services, with PostgreSQL as a supported database, for example. >> However, my work on Arches is not related to the university. >> >> How do the costs compare for the three providers? Similarly, how are they >> for support? I'll be grateful for any comments. >> >> Thanks >> David >> >> >> -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[Arches] Re: Choosing a cloud service for Arches
Thanks, Adam. That looks like a +1 for AWS and I appreciate your comments about Amazon's support and documentation. regards David On Monday, 21 August 2017 21:09:59 UTC+1, Adam Cox wrote: > > Hi David, I do all of my hosting on AWS because it is extremely flexible, > and the price is right. I don't have experience with Google Cloud Engine or > Azure... I would imagine that both of those services have everything you > need to get set up with Arches, but from Joel's comment it sounds like > Azure is more expensive than AWS. As for support, I have had a few issues > that were all quickly and easily resolved by opening support cases, and I > have also found their documentation to be very thorough. There is a > learning curve, but I highly recommend AWS. I don't know about GCE's "free > forever" tier, but AWS has its own "free tier" that includes the services > you would need for Arches, though it only lasts one year, just so you > know... > > If it's ever of interest to you, my company offers hosting for Arches v3 > or v4, either in production or just to help you out with development (set > up a quick instance and give you access to it, etc.). > > Hope that info is all helpful! > > Adam > > On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:28:50 AM UTC-4, David Osborne wrote: >> >> Does anyone using a cloud implementation of Arches have recommendations >> for choosing a provider? For our project, I'm considering Amazon AWS, >> Google's Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. This is a new installation, so >> there are no legacy systems to be considered. In the past, I've read about >> AWS but I don't yet know very much about Google's offering. At the >> university where I work, we're starting to deploy some new services in >> Azure, so I've had a little more exposure to that and it does seem to offer >> some useful services, with PostgreSQL as a supported database, for example. >> However, my work on Arches is not related to the university. >> >> How do the costs compare for the three providers? Similarly, how are they >> for support? I'll be grateful for any comments. >> >> Thanks >> David >> >> >> -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[Arches] Re: Choosing a cloud service for Arches
Thanks, Joel. It's interesting to have feedback from someone with experience of both AWS and Azure. I should have mentioned that we're on Arches v4 for our project. regards David On Monday, 21 August 2017 15:17:50 UTC+1, Joel Aldor wrote: > > Hi David, > > We've run Arches both on AWS and Microsoft Azure, and they run pretty > smoothly on both. They will only differ on settings.py configuration during > installation. Also, AWS is cheaper than Azure on almost all aspects. > Haven't tried Google Cloud yet, but it does have a "forever free" pricing > tier with server and storage specs that will fit for Arches version 3. > > Regards, > > Joel > > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[Arches] Re: Choosing a cloud service for Arches
Hi David, We at CVAST (University of South Florida) use AWS as well and had good experiences with it so far. There are people working for AWS that are dedicated to supporting educational instances at no cost. I talk regularly with their account manager and their solution architect. AWS also provides PostgreSQL as a service. We use it and so far it saved me a lot of work configuring and hosting my own Postgres instance. Our Arches instances (not in production yet) run in Docker containers in the AWS service called EC2 Container Service (ECS) Best, Vincent On Sunday, 20 August 2017 10:28:50 UTC-4, David Osborne wrote: > > Does anyone using a cloud implementation of Arches have recommendations > for choosing a provider? For our project, I'm considering Amazon AWS, > Google's Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. This is a new installation, so > there are no legacy systems to be considered. In the past, I've read about > AWS but I don't yet know very much about Google's offering. At the > university where I work, we're starting to deploy some new services in > Azure, so I've had a little more exposure to that and it does seem to offer > some useful services, with PostgreSQL as a supported database, for example. > However, my work on Arches is not related to the university. > > How do the costs compare for the three providers? Similarly, how are they > for support? I'll be grateful for any comments. > > Thanks > David > > > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
