Posts Tagged “rightscale”
Running your own hardware Vs EC2 and RightScale — Part 2
by Justin Leider on September 16, 2008
This week I’ve been reminded of a very important lesson… No matter how abstracted you are from your hardware, you still inherently rely on its smooth and consistent operation. This past week CitySquares’ NFS server went down for the count (…)
Nuances of EC2 and RightScale
by Justin Leider on September 5, 2008
So here it is, about two weeks have passed since CitySquares officially migrated its server infrastructure over to EC2 and RightScale. All in all, everything went relatively well. There were a few hiccups on the cut over day that left (…)
Amazon’s EBS (Elastic Block Store)
by Justin Leider on August 21, 2008
I wrote just yesterday about running your own hardware vs. using EC2 and RightScale and one of the major issues I found with EC2 was the lack of a persistent storage medium. Well, I knew the folks over at Amazon (…)
Running your own hardware Vs. EC2 and RightScale
by Justin Leider on August 20, 2008
A couple weeks ago I began working with EC2 and RightScale in preparation of our big IT infrastructure change over. Ill start by giving a brief overview of our hardware infrastructure. Currently we’re running the CitySquares’ website on our own (…)
Part 1: A Technology Overview
by Justin Leider on July 21, 2008
This will be the first post in a multi-part series, each of the following installations will detail the technologies and implementations of the upcoming CitySquares revision. I hope to cover the entire page generation process, starting with the user’s first (…)