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Scalr - Self-Scaling Hosting Environment utilizing Amazon's EC2

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• sunkencity 17y ago
  Scalr has been around for quite a while. I'm not sure why to use it when there's now load-balancing/scaling of instances built into ec2 itself. Maybe the monitoring and the database stuff.
  • SebastianStadil 17y ago
    Scalr scales your sql database, with master-slave separation, replication between nodes, and soon application transparent partitioning (sharding). So if you're not into the whole DBA / sysadmin fun, it's worth it. It also lets you restore a website version to a previous state if you get hacked, use traditional (cheaper) hosting solutions which burst on the cloud when needed, and manage app versions, backups, etc. in a more organized way then homegrown solutions.
• flooha 17y ago
  Maybe things have improved since this post, but this was my experience. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550692 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550692
  • SebastianStadil 17y ago
    Sorry that Scalr didn't work out for you. From the date your comment was posted (beginning 2009) Scalr was still a young open source project. We now have a development version available at development.scalr.net, if you would like to try it out again.
• mstefff 17y ago
  I'm not sure if I understand the pricing explanation... 1) Cloud computing minus the sky-high prices 2) just $99 plus AWS charges So it's cloud computing plus the sky-high prices? Typo?
  • SebastianStadil 17y ago
    Funny, I hadn't thought of that. :-)