[Building Sakai] Sakai in the cloud

[Jaques Smith]

Thanks guys,

Yip, I have two concerns, performance and configuration.
With performance I guess things like Samigo that does some heavy single
thread work will be slow. Also the many db calls.
For configuration, how do you manage the small different settings between
instances (especially creating and destroying instances)?  Also Aaron, if
you say it should be treated as disposable/temporary, still you should have
a "master" that is always up and can do the grunt email/webservice and so
on?

Cheers,
*Jaques
*


On 17 August 2012 18:02, Mark J. Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  I have provided Sakai hosting using GoGrid (gogrid.com) to several of my
> clients.  As Aaron suggested, it's pretty straightforward once the instance
> has been created.  The trick to cloud computing is to manage it's resources
> and up-time based on demand.  Amazon EC2 and most others (including GoGrid)
> provide tools to do this manually or programmatically.
>
> One other thing that a cloud computing environment offers is the ability
> to scale automatically (provided you the scripts to add additional
> instances in place).  That's potentially a big deal if you expect to see
> big spikes in use.  It should be noted that using hosted cloud solutions
> tend to be more expensive than conventional hosted solutions.  Still,
> generally cheaper than hosting it in your own data center (taking total
> cost of ownership into account).
>
> - Mark Norton
>   Nolaria Consulting
>
>
> On 8/17/2012 11:27 AM, Jaques Smith 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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