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Originally Posted by H
Oops. I kind of forgot about this... Umm, I'm actually looking into mod_rails right now to see if it's a better solution. It'd be way easier for most people to implement, not to mention, for Surpass to implement (if they choose). |
H... have you tried using a public ami for ec2...? It literally takes about 3 minutes to launch...
I can show you how to spawn ec2 instances... it's actually really simple.
Anyways... here's the link to one of the more popular ror AMIs
EC2 on Rails
btw... you would have to work with one of Amazon's configurations:
Available Amazon EC2 Instance Types
Small Instance (default) (1)
1.7 GB memory, 32-bit platform
1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit)
160 GB instance storage (150 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
Instance Type name: m1.small (used in EC2 APIs)
Price: $0.10 per instance hour
Large Instance
7.5 GB memory, 64-bit platform
4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
850 GB instance storage (2 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
Instance Type name: m1.large (used in EC2 APIs)
Price: $0.40 per instance hour
Extra Large Instance
15 GB memory, 64-bit platform
8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
1,690 GB instance storage (4 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
Instance Type name: m1.xlarge (used in EC2 APIs)
Price: $0.80 per instance hour