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I haven't played with EC2 yet (but it's on my list). I know about a firefox plugin that helps manage instances (http://sourceforge.net/projects/elasticfox/ http

by ropiku 19y ago

I haven't played with EC2 yet (but it's on my list). I know about a firefox plugin that helps manage instances (http://sourceforge.net/projects/elasticfox/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/elasticfox/). As far as I know you launch the instance, ssh on it and have fun. That url is your instance address. You can make a loadb alancer by installing Apache or Nginx on a server (instance or other) then from there proxy to your instances (you'll have to open the ports). See the Nginx wiki for more documentation (http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxLoadBalanceExample http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxLoadBalanceExample). If you need help configuring the Nginx shout. It's basically VPS but where you pay by the hour and it doesn't have a static IP and persistent hdd. You can also use a AMI with what do you need (I saw there was one for Rails).

PStamatiou 19y ago
"It's basically VPS but where you pay by the hour and it doesn't have a static IP and persistent hdd. You can also use a AMI with what do you need (I saw there was one for Rails)." Yeah I'm looking to setup something where I can point a domain to a load balancer instance (but if it needs to be restarted and changes instance URL, the domain no longer points to the right one?) so I can essentially run an entire site/app off of EC2. But then again it's probably better off to make a regular server be the load balancer I'm guessing. Since EC2 doesn't have persistent hdd - where do ppl keep databases? Not on S3 the latency would be up there.. in RAM on EC2? I pre-ordered the O'Reilly EC2/S3 book months ago.. it should be shipping in March I think.
- ropiku 19y ago
  Yes, that's the problem of using EC2 for webhosting, after restarting the address of the instance changes. It's best to have a fixed reguler server and then instances varied on demand. RightScale is a company that sells this kind of services. Those who use DB on EC2 (from what I read on the web) just don't restart their instance and make backups to S3.

by ropiku 19y ago

PStamatiou 19y ago

"It's basically VPS but where you pay by the hour and it doesn't have a static IP and persistent hdd. You can also use a AMI with what do you need (I saw there was one for Rails)." Yeah I'm looking to setup something where I can point a domain to a load balancer instance (but if it needs to be restarted and changes instance URL, the domain no longer points to the right one?) so I can essentially run an entire site/app off of EC2. But then again it's probably better off to make a regular server be the load balancer I'm guessing. Since EC2 doesn't have persistent hdd - where do ppl keep databases? Not on S3 the latency would be up there.. in RAM on EC2? I pre-ordered the O'Reilly EC2/S3 book months ago.. it should be shipping in March I think.

ropiku 19y ago
Yes, that's the problem of using EC2 for webhosting, after restarting the address of the instance changes. It's best to have a fixed reguler server and then instances varied on demand. RightScale is a company that sells this kind of services. Those who use DB on EC2 (from what I read on the web) just don't restart their instance and make backups to S3.