Can someone give specific steps how to implement hosting a Django based website by using Amazon EC2 hosting service? Is that possible? My website source code can be found here I goolged and found this article But before doing anything I just want to get some basic ideas about Amazon EC2 hosting. ...
What is best available EC2 AMI that have satisfy following must have? Ruby Stack Pre Installed MySql Installed and configured with Ruby Monit Installed Nginx Secure SSH access Please let me know AMI you are recommending you have used or not? Amazon lacks proper review system for AMI unlike product/book previews. ...
For keeping a website with significant traffic, how good is the latency on Amazon EC2? I have heard that it is slow for websites and web apps. Is this true? ...
Hi, I trying to navigate my new EC2 setup and was hoping to find an AMI setup for Rails. I've been having trouble. Basically, I'm looking for something like this: * Apache 2.2 * Ruby Enterprise Edtion (REE) * Passenger * MySql Installed and configured with Ruby Anyone have an AMI with a basic rails stack they could point me to? ...
I am running a Rails app using Paperclip to take care of file attachments and image resizing, etc. The app is currently hosted on EngineYard cloud, and all attachments are stored in their EBS. Thinking about using S3 to handle all Paperclip attachments. Does anyone know of a good and safe way for this migration? many thanks! ...
Does anyone know of a Fortran compiler that can be used inside a Windows Azure project? I am ultimately looking to take a fortran code I have upgraded with MPI and get it to run inside Azure. I can run the code already on EC2 but integrating a web ui has been klunky as there are a lot of moving parts - IIS, mpi nodes and the like that ...
Basically what I want to do is this: get a cheap linux server make a little Ruby on Rails project, I plan to toy a bit with Sinatra as well store my AMI on S3 So I input the following data into the calculator: S3: Storage: 5 GB Data transfer in: 1 GB Data transfer out: 1 GB PUT/LIST Requests: 10000 Other Requests: 10000 EC2: S...
Hi, does anyone know if this can be done? I can find Windows Server 2003 but not 2008. I read you can create your own EC2 Virtual machines, but I haven't found any articles that say you can do this with Windows Server 2008. I'm really after IIS7, but I'd also intend to use SQL Server Express 2008 until such time as I can add support f...
I want my Perl script can handle a large number of users. I'm going to run the script on Amazon clouds servers. This is my understanding of how the clouds work. At first the script instances are run on a single server. Then at the moment the server gets overloaded by too many users, the second server is added to run script instances. Do...
Hello, At my company we are looking at hosting a blog and a CMS . We are still in the process of building the product and havent made it live yet. We are looking at some hosting options. We need to have complete root shell access to the system .So, i have the following two questions. 1.) Should we go for Amazon EC2 or VPS, considering ...
We've deployed our rails app to EC2. In our setup, we have two proxies on small instances behind round-robin DNS. These run nginx load balancers for a dynamically growing and shrinking farm of web servers. Each web server also runs nginx with a cluster of mongrels. The nginx here takes care of static content and load balancing the mo...
I have create a LAMP based service on a shared hosting provider. It has now grown and I want to move it on AWS EC2. I have already ported the code and the data, set up ESB for the persistent content, set up an AMI image that boots up fine and has tested the solution on EC2. I want now to redirect my DNS to the EC2 instance(s) IP. I have...
I have a PHP script that calls a .bat file using system(). The output is written to the screen and I derive some values from parsing this output. This is running on windows 2003 IIS server. PHP v5.2.0 Specifically I am using this script to launch an Amazon EC2 instance and assign an IP address to it. It has worked great for me so far bu...
My app is hosted on an Amazon EC2 cluster. Each instance writes events to log files. I need to collect (and data mine) over these logs at the end of each day. What's a recommended way to collect these logs in a central location? I have thought of several options, not sure which way to go: scp them to an instance using a cron job Log al...
Hi, Assuming I have an Amazon product URL like so http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B0015T963C/ref=amb_link_86123711_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0AY9N5GXRYHCADJP5P0V&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=500528151&pf_rd_i=507846 How could I scrape just the ASIN using javascript...
Is it possible to establish VPN connectivity to Amazon S3 directly without utilizing Elastic cloud EC2? ...
I would like to access external data from my aws ec2 instance. In more detail: I would like to specify inside by user-data the name of a folder containing about 2M of binary data. When my aws instance starts up, I would like it to download the files in that folder and copy them to a specific location on the local disk. I only need to a...
I've got a Java web service backed by MySQL + EC2 + EBS. For data integrity I've looked into DRBD, MySQL cluster etc. but wonder if there isn't a simpler solution. I don't need high availability (can handle downtime) There are only a few operations whose data I need to preserve -- creating an account, changing password, purchase receipt...
I wish to set up a CPU-intensive time-important query service for users on the internet. A usage scenario is described below. Is cloud computing the right way to go for such an implementation? If so, what cloud vendor(s) cater to this type of application? I ask specifically, in terms of: 1) pricing 2) latency resulting from: - slow ...
I'm having an issue with Passenger and Rails working together on my Scalr application server. I have Rails 2.3.5 installed and Passenger 2.2.7. I am running ruby 1.8.6 (patchlevel 111). Previous version of both Rails and Passenger worked fine together but now I get shown just a file tree and no application after updating: http://matchm...