Hi,
I'm currently investigating EC2 as a viable means to deploy WO apps.
Previous discussion has been here:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/webobjects-deploy/2008/Apr/msg00050.html
I found some maven tools here:
http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/
and there is also support for capistrano available
Things that may have changed since then are:
- you can now attach storage to instances. Instances can still die,
but you can reboot and still have the last state
- you now have some sort of mini-akamai, which is nice to have in some
cases...
Some of the questions I still have are:
- what sort of DB would you use? MySQL? PG? FB?
- would it make sense to create an EC2Monitor app that would take care
of starting/stopping on demand. This app would use the ec2 API for
this (probably some sort of enhanced JavaMonitor)
- anyone tried to simply use these things for strictly app-serving?
I.E. run the DB and web servers at your machines, run the apps on EC2?
- ever used anything that is not a RDMS? Like SimpleDB or CouchDB? One
would think that the REST adaptor in Wonder might help here
- is this cost-efficient? I.E. isn't the overhead of managing the
cloud vs the cost of a few machines that you manage too high? And you
get 2Gig for a small instance for ~70$/month... which is about what I
get with my hosting provider. Of course, I can't start and stop or
reimage as easily there... so is the whole thing worth it?
Cheers, Anjo
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected])
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
