[Building Sakai] Sakai in the cloud

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Unicon runs the majority of our instances in the amazon cloud (EC2) or
our own private cloud. It is basically the same as running it on local
machines in almost every case except the normal cloud stuff. (e.g.
generally cloud instances should be treated as disposable/temporary so
you would not address them for things like sending and receiving email
since they could disappear without warning).

One other thing to consider is that you are sharing resources with
others when running in a cloud so it is possible that you will see
some performance degradation but you can compensate for that with
extra instances. Also, IO performance is typically worse than
dedicated hardware and if you have dedicated hardware with SSD drives
then it doesn't even get close. That stuff is not specific to Sakai
either.

-AZ



On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Jaques Smith <jaques at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Is anybody running Sakai CLE in a cloud environment? Where, what, how?
> Is there any pitfalls, problems?
>
> Cheers,
> Jaques
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