crickets in peril

We’re targeting amazon’s amazing ec2 service to host our alpha. Computing in the cloud is great for us — no installation/maintenance hassles, elastic expansibility as we need to scale, ability to create peripheral instances (such as staging) on the fly and turn them off when we’re done.

However, I was a bit worried about how the slim machine profile (1.7 G RAM, single processor) would fare for database and solr work. Fortunately, I just discovered that they’ve released new machine profiles with higher RAM, more processor cores, and more, faster storage. Rad. These folks know what’s up, and make it ever easier to run a startup.

Now I just need a solid memcached/web server machine profile (low CPU, high RAM, low storage) that shoots the gap between the small (0.10/hr) and the medium (0.40/hr). Something like 2 cores and 4-8 GB of RAM would be nice. Wonder how long it is before these specs themselves become configurable?

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 at 5:51 pm and is filed under amazon, ec2, hardware, memcached, memory, solr, storage.