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After a cursory googling, it looks like AWS is still the only one where you can programatically modify the number of nodes in your cluster. If your goal is to l
by keefe 17y ago
After a cursory googling, it looks like AWS is still the only one where you can programatically modify the number of nodes in your cluster. If your goal is to launch a public facing site and automatically scale up to some limit as you get users, then AWS is a good choice. With AWS you are buying automated scalability and amazon's reliability (not that rackspace doesn't know what they're doing)
- jawngee 17y agoYou can do it with Slicehost's API. http://articles.slicehost.com/assets/2008/10/3/Slicehost_API-17.pdf http://articles.slicehost.com/assets/2008/10/3/Slicehost_API...
- keefe 17y agoInteresting, I see those entries... I had been looking at this : http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/3/26/announcing-the-slicehost-api http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/3/26/announcing-the-s... ". Please note that the current iteration allows access to DNS only." I guess they had another iteration since then, thanks for the info!