The blog has been down for a few days. Once or twice a year I like to give my technology a break. Let the electrons spin free for a while that sort of thing. I thought I would move the blog from bluehost to webbynode and so I’ve spent the past few days trying to…
Category: hosting
Heroku
I’ve watched Heroku for a while. I’ve even tried to deploy an app there a few times, but never got into it that much. I needed a cheap (free) place to put My Amazon Feeds.com. It’s just a utility site. It’s not meant to scale or be production worthy. Instead it’s meant to show off…
EngineYard -Your new IT Team
Back in the day I was impressed by EngineYard but couldn’t afford to use them. Now I can’t afford to not use them. I use them for several projects. We have the full 3 slice stack setup with one project – 2 production and 1 staging database. The service they provide is like going to…
Scalr – Scalable Hosting Framework for Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s web services business has sparked a number of business opportunities. Using EC2 and S3 is not especially easy for a beginner, but scalable web architectures aren’t a place for the weak hearted geek. Enter Scalr. This is an open source project meant to make building a scalable, fault tolerant system on Amazon’s services easier….
A Few More Thoughts On Morph Exchange
I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application – it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of the simplicity of deployment on Morph Exchange I decided to deploy the application on their platform. I don’t have time to…
Morph Exchange Review
I recently wrote about Cloud Computing. Alain Benedict from Morph Exchange told me that I neglected to add his company to the list. I said I would check it out. He said he would hold me to it. Last night I spent a little quality with Morph and now have a few impressions to share….
Elastic Cloud Computing
One of the most difficult tasks when putting up a new site is picking the right host. Moving hosts later on is terribly difficult so choosing the correct hosting company is as important as selecting a business partner. I’ve collected about 30 hosting companies in my delicious bookmarks. Some are specific to a platform others…