[Building Sakai] Sakai CLE on EC2

[Steve Swinsburg]

If it helps, I'm going to be running up Sakai on Microsoft Azure, probably
early next year though.

cheers,
Steve


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Jaques Smith <jaques at opencollab.co.za>wrote:

> Thanks Chuck and Matthew,
>
> That answers a lot of my questions and gives me enough to play with.
>
> Jaques
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> 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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