Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-15 Thread Jason Pickering
Another experiment I conducted over the weekend was a hybrid approach. Linnode seems to be quite good at being persistent and is relatively cheap. I think the draw back is of it is not at all as easily scalable as Amazon. I tried a setup where I use a Linode as the backend DB and then a cluster

Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-15 Thread Jason Pickering
More cool stuff with Amazon Web Services. In my last experiment with AWS, I have utilized the Elastic Beanstalk. A little bit strange to get your head around but here it is.. http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/ So, basically, what you do is you upload a war file. AWS then deploys it to a

Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-15 Thread Lars Helge Øverland
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Jason Pickering jason.p.picker...@gmail.com wrote: More cool stuff with Amazon Web Services. In my last experiment with AWS, I have utilized the Elastic Beanstalk. A little bit strange to get your head around but here it is..

Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-15 Thread Jason Pickering
From the Amazon web service stanpoint, it woud be idea to have a completely standaalone package which deploys itself, or the use of a parameter which is documented here ... http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/ug/index.html?using-features.managing.db.htmlwhich can be used to

Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-13 Thread Jason Pickering
Looking more into costs, it seems to be quite significant. Costs are calculated based on instance-hour. If it is up and running, it is billed. Testing on a Micro instance proved that performance is pretty unacceptably slow. Scaling up to an instance with 17 GB of memory improved things

Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-13 Thread Jason Pickering
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Jo Størset stor...@gmail.com wrote: Took it off-list, but maybe others are also interested? Oops. Den 13. mars 2011 kl. 10.54 skrev Jason Pickering: Looking more into costs, it seems to be quite significant. Costs are calculated based on instance-hour. If

[Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-12 Thread Jason Pickering
Hi Everyone, For those of you may be interested, I have setup and configured an Amazon EC2 instance of DHIS2 2.1 /Tomcat/Apache/Postgres. If you would like to utilize the instance for your own purposes, let me know, and I can give you more details of how you can get the image. Regards, Jason

Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-12 Thread Jo Størset
Den 12. mars 2011 kl. 12.09 skrev Jason Pickering: Hi Everyone, For those of you may be interested, I have setup and configured an Amazon EC2 instance of DHIS2 2.1 /Tomcat/Apache/Postgres. If you would like to utilize the instance for your own purposes, let me know, and I can give you

Re: [Dhis2-devs] Amazon EC2 AMI

2011-03-12 Thread Jason Pickering
I really have no idea about costs. I need to figure this out as part of a budgeting exercise, and compare against Linode Linode are priced differently. EC2 is based on usage, where as Linonde is more or less a fixed cost per month. I have DHIS2 running on both at the moment, in order to compare