Comments on: Announcing Elastic Rails

By: Div

Div — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:53:55 +0000

Hi Steve , I tried as per this tutorial but I’m not able to make it work as you said. Since you are asking to copy few lines from example/deploy.rb in my application I couldn’t find anything like that.I’m using capistarno2.4.0 and amazon-ec2 (0.2.13)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:11:38 +0000

cool! thanks Steve! I”ll check them out.. btw, thanks for such an excellent writeup and the screencast (one of the best and informative ones out there!)

cheers

By: steveodom

steveodom — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:18:46 +0000

Mike, I use dnsmadeeasy.com I created an address records there and pointed it to my EC2 instance IP address. DNSmadeeasy is cheap too. I think I pay $30 a year. I might do a blog post one day on steps I took but its pretty simple.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:46:12 +0000

Hi Steve, how do you give a nicer domain name to your EC2 instance like niblets.com instead of that domU-1203-serverinstance-29282.amazon.blah.com thingy that is in the screen casts?? does it mean you have to maintain one server in a hosting company somewhere which runs your DNS and then run apache and proxy requests to all your dom-U’s on the EC2 side (if you wanted to run a pure EC2 instance)

is something like that even possible?

By: steveodom

steveodom — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:19:29 +0000

Duncan, I haven’t tested it on 2.0. So i don’t know. I’d be curious as to your experience if you try it with 2.0.

By: Duncan Robertson

Duncan Robertson — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:48:48 +0000

Does this require capistrano 1.x or will it work with 2.0 as well?

By: Ralph Haygood

Ralph Haygood — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:26:05 +0000

Thanks. I had that impression, but I wondered whether I was missing something.

By: steveodom

steveodom — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:02:26 +0000

Ralph, once you get an EC2 instance up, then it is no different than a physical server (for the most part). You can optimize an EC2 instance to be a db server or a web server, using whatever linux packages and distros you want, and make them work together however you would using physical servers.

By: Ralph Haygood

Ralph Haygood — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:11:50 +0000

Steve,

Thanks for the plugin, video, etc. They’re very helpful.

I’d like to know what you think about a matter I haven’t seen mentioned in any of the discussions of Rails and EC2 I’ve found. Running everything (MySQL, Rails, etc.) in a single EC2 instance is fine for development and private deployment. But for public deployment, if the application proves at least moderately popular, a single server won’t be enough. The next step beyond a single server might be one public-facing server running, say, Apache, one server running MySQL, and several servers running Rails, perhaps behind Mongrel. Do you think it would be practical or straightforward to implement such a multiserver arrangement in EC2? (I apologize if the question is naive; I don’t know much about EC2.)

Ralph

By: steveodom

steveodom — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:11:57 +0000

Alex,
One of the reasons I created the wiki at elasticrails.com is so people could share their recipes for deployment. Can you post the recipes you would like to the wiki? I will then take a look at adding them to the plugin.