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Slides from RailsConf Europe '07 on Scaling Rails and Joyent Architecture

6 points by DocSavage 19y ago

DocSavage 19y ago
Joyent has interesting services (disk, VPSes) that are alternatives to Amazon EC2 and S3. They're using Sun equipment for the newer services, and I was wondering if any current Joyent Accelerator or Bingodisk customers would comment on their experience. My old VC account on TextDrive was unusable for production, so I'm a little wary.
- chaostheory 19y ago
  I tried using their services, but since my sys admin skills are currently lacking (for Solaris) I just stayed with my current host MediaTemple. Mainly this was because MT's ui is ^$^@$#ing awesome. I could be wrong but I believe a YC alum is responsible for MT's admin UI. I've only seen one company compare to it and their prices aren't great
  - nanijoe 19y ago
    For the kind of money that MT charges, why would you not just get a dedicated server?
    - chaostheory 19y ago
      well I only pay $20 - what places do u recommend? o yeah it comes with 24/7 phone support not to mention there are tons of tutorials that cater to their grid services... right now we're trying to just nail as many features as possible, so we're spendind as little time as possible doing sys admin work
champion 19y ago
Slides are somewhat readable, although in parts a little thin without the presentation. I think the single thing that stuck out was how scalable Sun's Directory Server was -- supporting up to 230 million users in the Sina example he gives. Not bad.
mhartl 19y ago
At RailsConf '07 I went to what appears to be the same talk. As far as I could tell, he missed the audience almost completely. The question we had was "How do I design my Rails app to scale, in case it's the next Twitter?" The question he answered was "What if you wanted to build a datacenter, so you could be the next Joyent?"
- wmf 19y ago
  I didn't go to the talk, but from the slides I got the impression that if you're the next Twitter you'll find it cheaper to build your own datacenter than to rent from Joyent. I don't know if this is true, though.

6 points by DocSavage 19y ago

Joyent has interesting services (disk, VPSes) that are alternatives to Amazon EC2 and S3. They're using Sun equipment for the newer services, and I was wondering if any current Joyent Accelerator or Bingodisk customers would comment on their experience. My old VC account on TextDrive was unusable for production, so I'm a little wary.

chaostheory 19y ago
I tried using their services, but since my sys admin skills are currently lacking (for Solaris) I just stayed with my current host MediaTemple. Mainly this was because MT's ui is ^$^@$#ing awesome. I could be wrong but I believe a YC alum is responsible for MT's admin UI. I've only seen one company compare to it and their prices aren't great
- nanijoe 19y ago
  For the kind of money that MT charges, why would you not just get a dedicated server?
  - chaostheory 19y ago
    well I only pay $20 - what places do u recommend? o yeah it comes with 24/7 phone support not to mention there are tons of tutorials that cater to their grid services... right now we're trying to just nail as many features as possible, so we're spendind as little time as possible doing sys admin work

champion 19y ago

Slides are somewhat readable, although in parts a little thin without the presentation. I think the single thing that stuck out was how scalable Sun's Directory Server was -- supporting up to 230 million users in the Sina example he gives. Not bad.

mhartl 19y ago

At RailsConf '07 I went to what appears to be the same talk. As far as I could tell, he missed the audience almost completely. The question we had was "How do I design my Rails app to scale, in case it's the next Twitter?" The question he answered was "What if you wanted to build a datacenter, so you could be the next Joyent?"

wmf 19y ago
I didn't go to the talk, but from the slides I got the impression that if you're the next Twitter you'll find it cheaper to build your own datacenter than to rent from Joyent. I don't know if this is true, though.