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Hi,

I've been looking for an AMI that has basically an updated version of ruby gems, thin and nginx and mysql installed.

EC2onRails seems to be left alone now since Paul decided to leave the project.

If you were to deploy your Rails App in the cloud, what are your benchmarks? Recommendations?

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If you want a full "cloud" setup where most of the admin functions are abstracted away from you, checkout Heroku, if you want a virtual server (where you need to set things up yourself), checkout Rackspace Cloud servers.

If you are just getting started, I would highly recommend setting everything up yourself as the ability to do so is a fairly necessary development skill.

Mike Buckbee
Didn't the OP just want to know where to find an EC2 image?
Chris McCauley
Many thanks for your answer.I tried heroku but ended up facing probs when gems are not working or server is down, i wasn't able to troubleshoot.I'm just wondering if rails devs are still using EC2 to deploy rails apps or they found something better, cheaper somewhere else
cnicolaou
Well, Rackspace Cloud is definitely less expensive to get started with than EC2. In general if you aren't going to be taking advantage of the other AWS services like S3, SQS, etc. you'll probably be better of with Rackspace Cloud (or another Virtual Private Server).
Mike Buckbee