Moving (again) http://onrails.org from Heroku to EC2
If you read this then this blog is now running Typo 5.5 on Rails 2.3.9 on EC2.
I really love the ease of deployment to heroku and the fact that they manage the whole stack. However I receive regularly emails from Heroku stating that I get a specific nu...
Amazon EC2, HPC Edition
We have been proponents of Amazon’s EC2 service from the very beginning and – warning: shameless self-promotion – have built some pretty impressive applications on top of it. Check out the Sweety High social networking site, for example. No...
Sphinx, Chef and EY Cloud
I’m getting a client up and running on EngineYard’s Cloud offering, and it has been a pleasure. One of the things I’ve appreciated about using it is that I’m forced (in a good way) to use Chef, which is awesome.
Today I was ready to deploy a new version of the app with search using...
Automating ec2 deployments with Ruby
Recently I’ve had a couple of clients choose Amazon EC2 for their deployment environments, so I’ve been spending more time playing with EC2 lately than I ever had before. I set out to create a repeatable and time-efficient deployment process, and the result of my work is an easy to use ruby script, detailed...
