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Script to build up our own private server
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Select the (best) provider to deploy our machine #24

Closed jeanmonod closed 11 years ago

jeanmonod commented 12 years ago

Where to deploy?

Too many options....

Pros for Hardware Dedicated Server

jeanmonod commented 12 years ago

One possible solution Amazon with the turnkey interface: https://hub.turnkeylinux.org/

gildegoma commented 12 years ago

Yes, They are tons of variant/providers... I think now many clould-providers rely on Amazon and offer added-value services. I recently saw such other interesting provider: http://www.scalarium.com (easy deployment via git,svn or chef and many other goodies). basic pricing starts at 0.03€/hour =~ 263€/year, not cheap, but still affordable?)

I think it's worth we decide "carefully". Since we want to learn some more new stuff, I would invest some time to survey the Cloud-style offers, even if we first go for a dedicated server. What I understand about pricing of Herokku, Rackspace, Turnkylinux, Scalarium and others: you can increase/decrease your Server performance at anytime, and billing rates will be updated in the next hour. Hence the pricing per hour, instead per month/year. Such elasticity is not intersting for us (at least at the beginning).

Once we enter Cloud world, more stuff come in the playground, especially Openstack, which sounds very interesting as well:

If going cloud is affordable (we also have to check minimal period of contract), I would vote for such direction. What we'll learn could benefit for more further projects... and our bricolage server will be elastic, in case our 'audience' grows ;-). Anyway, we may start with a cheaper VPS, and switch later... that's the goal of good chef-scripting ;-)

Note: I roughly inserted some links I found on my way in the main description of this issue (hope there is not too much errors)... please do the same so we can review them later.

gildegoma commented 12 years ago

For PoC phase, I would propose to investigate openshift from redhat, currently the 'Developer Preview' version offers FreeShift planning, that does not cost anything (yet). Very promising features:

Plus :

gildegoma commented 11 years ago

(very) Important News: Scalarium (see above) has been acquired by Amazon Web Services: With "OpsWorks" you can manage AWS stuff with Chef cookbooks:

So on my Cloud+Chef list, I have at the moment:

gildegoma commented 11 years ago

Let's try first AWS + OpsWorks

gildegoma commented 11 years ago

AWS/EC2 (first year free of charge!) sounds a good option to try/validate, but I just wanted to drop related information about this topic: