RightScale's got an open source competitor: Scalr (source is at code.google.com/p/scalr)

scalr · 1 year

Hmm. Food for thought.

Thanks for the tip!

scalr · 1 year

We have ethical concerns about having an enterprise edition (or any proprietary edition), because we then have a conflict of interest when the community submits a patch that 'competes' with the enterprise edition.

We are thinking of making the free plan to the service offering be a link to the source code. Or something along those lines.

scalr · 1 year

True, but they'll be deploying OpenStack Compute this summer which will bridge a lot of the gap.

scalr · 1 year

We've found Amazon's customer service for physical goods to be awesome, but as infrastructure goes, Fanatical Support is hard to beat.

scalr · 1 year

If you are tight on budget, Beanstalk can be good for Java apps, but if you are looking for something more flexible, with an elegant UI, check us out.

scalr · 1 year

We're focused on scaling web apps, and Django fits well into that category. Simply create a server farm, deploy your django app, and configure it to use the provided database endpoints.

scalr · 1 year

Sorry you had a bad experience; why don't you try us out?

scalr · 1 year

Unfortunately we've found that it caused confusion; open source is not often also available as software as a service so a lot of people got stuck in the "is it one or the other" spot.

Any tips on how to make this clearer?

scalr · 2 years

Perhaps overkill :-) A friend of mine works there, should have thought about it.

scalr · 2 years

We use a hybrid solution, using both cloud and non-cloud resources. We've found that EC2 is more stable than our non-cloud servers.

Have you tried it?

scalr · 2 years

The service version is basically a convenience: no updates, no installing.

Regardless; to run Scalr reliably, you would need to deploy it on several network-independent servers, which would probably cost you more than the service offering to begin with.

scalr · 2 years

Why Slicehost?

scalr · 2 years

Got it. Thanks!

scalr · 2 years

We're adding an abstraction layer between Scalr and EC2 in the next release, to support other compute cloud providers. Any particular one you'd like to see supported?

scalr · 2 years

Their return flight to Europe has been rescheduled to April 26. That only leaves this weekend and Monday morning.

scalr · 2 years

We flew in some of our developers to sync up. How about meeting to talk code?

scalr · 2 years

Sounds cool - any plans on releasing them?

scalr · 2 years

PM me for a free account :-)

scalr · 2 years

Auto-scaling doesn't manage any sort of configuration or clustering, so while it is good for simple app servers, it won't work for databases. RDS does not (currently) support replication, so that's a single point of failure.

In contrast, Scalr gives you the tools to tie in all the components required for maximum scalability of your infrastructure. Things like auto-creation of EBS volumes, EBS snapshot rotations, Raid over EBS volumes, shared filesystems, event-based scripting hooks, etc.

scalr · 2 years

That's a bit reductionist, but yes, you are welcome to use the preinstalled images we made for you here: wiki.scalr.net/Installation/Pre-packaged_images

scalr · 2 years

A friend of yours?

scalr · 2 years

I was assuming /r/programming would be more interested in the source code, than the commercial service around it that funds the project. You are welcome to sign up to prove me wrong ;-)

scalr · 2 years

Perhaps you could suggest it to them ;-)

scalr · 2 years

There's no programmatic way of doing this so far, but fortunately we have found Amazon quite responsive for upping the limit, and it takes in most cases less than a day. And if you've talked to your account manager before, you can shot him an email directly for expedited process.

scalr · 2 years

We created this project two years ago, and released it under the GPL. If you know someone who owns a website, it might be helpful to suggest they use Scalr with it.

Scalr auto-scales all the components of the web stack, as well as provides tweaks to improve performance and scale further (like optimized db engines, caching).

You can find the wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalr

If you're good with python or php, and want to join a cloud computing open source project, PM us.

Cheers, The Scalr Team

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