Tag Archives: DNS

DNS Load Balancing and Using Multiple Load Balancers in the Cloud

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

Load balancing in general is a complicated process, but there’s some secret sauce in managing DNS along with multiple load balancers in the cloud. It requires that you draw from a few different sets of networking and “cloudy” concepts. In … Continue reading →

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Identifying Workloads for the Cloud

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

Identifying workloads to move to the cloud can be tricky. You have dozens or hundreds of apps running in your organization, and now that you’ve seen the operational efficiencies and agility available to you in the cloud, you’re tempted to … Continue reading →

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More Rails on Amazon EC2 with RightScale

Posted on October 8, 2007 by

We’ve had a number of users getting going with our Rails-all-in-one server template and from the questions we’ve received it’s clearly time to cover some more advanced topics. Database backups The template does include automatic database backups but you need … 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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