Monthly Archives: September 2007

Service as Software

Posted on September 28, 2007 by

I had a chat this morning with Doc Searls and he coined “Service as a Software”, obviously as a reversal of the common “Software as a Service.” A little googling reveals that Netsuite has used the Service as Software term … Continue reading →

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RightImages changelog

Posted on September 26, 2007 by

We are currently maintaining CentOS and Fedora Core RightImages. The motivation for these images and the way we build them automatically using a script is described in our RightScripts rationale blog entry. The short version is that we keep the … Continue reading →

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Launch your Rails App in minutes on Amazon EC2 using RightScale

Posted on September 20, 2007 by

I previously showed-off our Rails-with-Mephisto server template so now it’s time for the Rails-all-in-One server template which makes it very easy to get your own Rails application running on Amazon EC2. We’ve made this template public, so any RightScale user … Continue reading →

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Setting up site on EC2 with RightScale

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

The key to a successful site setup on Amazon EC2 is scalability and redundancy. RightScale makes this easy by providing server templates and multi-server deployments. To get started, let’s take the simplest case: a single server set-up. We have a … Continue reading →

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The 10-minute EC2 server

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

The new Rails All-In-One server template we just made public makes it really easy to get your own Rails application running on Amazon EC2. And it’s all free to boot! The server template is a collection of RightScripts that install … Continue reading →

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Setting up MySQL with the RightScale MySQL Manager — part 1

Posted on September 10, 2007 by

Setting up a redundant MySQL master/slave database using RightScale has become rather easy using our recently introduced Manager for MySQL. Let’s start by setting up the master. For this we define a “MySQL master” server template. A server template is … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 changes how MySQL is used

Posted on September 9, 2007 by

Amazon EC2 will change the way MySQL is used: it suddenly opens a whole slew of new possibilities. What’s really exciting is that it can also simplify the management of MySQL which enables powerful automation as provided in the [RightScale … Continue reading →

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