[Building Sakai] Sakai CLE on EC2

[Jaques Smith]

Thanks Chuck and Matthew,

That answers a lot of my questions and gives me enough to play with.

Jaques



On 6 December 2012 05:32, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:

> Good writeups. You probably can install it on the Amazon suggested Amazon
> ami, but that uses redhat style packages and conventions, so you may prefer
> something else. I'd use the latest Ubuntu LTS (12.04) rather than the old
> LTS if you were going that way.
>
> Really the distribution doesn't matter too much, it is going to need
> memory. The M1 Small (1.7G) is the smallest you'll be able to get an
> instance running on as you'll want at least 1GB for PermGen and Heap to
> support even a small number of users, then some extra for MySQL and the OS.
> For production, you're probably looking at something like 1-2 Large
> instances for the improved I/O and more memory.
>
> You'd have to run these costs verses some other hosting. EC2 isn't always
> ideal for an "always on" instance and Sakai doesn't exactly scale
> horizontally really well. You can bring instances up okay but can't take
> them down without dropping user sessions and causing service disruptions.
> So these will be running all the time. EC2 would be quite cost effective if
> this was possible but Sakai CLE is not able to take advantage of this.
>
> It can for sure be convenient to manage if you want servers in multiple
> countries, and if you prefer Oracle over MySQL that option seems like it
> could potentially have a cost advantage. But the cost is for sure higher
> than other dedicated VPSes and that's not even considering the bandwidth.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Jaques,
>>
>> I have done some playing with it and have a README that records my
>> travels:
>>
>>
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/csev/trunk/scripts/sakai-full/AMAZON_EC2.txt
>>
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/csev/trunk/scripts/sakai-full/
>>
>> It may not be up to date - but you might find it useful.
>>
>> /Chuck
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2012, at 3:53 AM, Jaques Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Anybody working with Sakai on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jaques
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