Hi again On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello Adam,
There is a site I developed and deployed on the Amazon EC ^2 cluster some time back nairobi.sciencehackday.com. It is a django app. I was and still is mostly concerned with its administration. You can talk to Morris Mwanga (cc'd) for more information on billing, pricing and other interests.
Martin.
I should probably add the main reasons that made us tilt towards the of use Amazon Web services at the time: 1) We did the site as a django project since we thought it would be simpler to extend it in future if we found that to be necessary. We were considering the fact that we could want to show a list of people who had booked tickets to attend the event or simply give them a registration page. Having tried to do custom drupal / wordpress / Joomla module development (especially drupal), we thought the process would have been more painful / confusing or longer as compared to writing django apps, which is almost trivial and can be done quite fast. 2) Traditional web hosts do not normally have Python provided in their LAMPP stack, I think it normally is Linux Apache MySQL, PHP / PERL, I could be wrong. At some point we were even considering having PostgreSQL as our database server even though we ended up just using an embedded PySQLite server as our store. On Amazon and similar hosting services we could and did install whatever we wanted including Ngingx as the reverse proxy server pushing static content to our clients, Memcache maybe if our traffic went crazy, etc. We also have additional Python packages such as Markdown for formatting text content and an event brite API client. 3) Amazon was somehow "free", we already had subscribed to the service and we just needed to create a micro instance of a server and fire it up with our particular configuration. Lastly with regards to pricing, I have used the services of Webfaction<http://www.webfaction.com/>on another site. The plan I am using costs $9.50 per month, around $102.00 per year and I think it is pretty adequate. I am not so sure if the kind of service you intend to deploy offers more benefits than the ones I am using right now. This could be due to ignorance on my part. Martin.
On Apr 23, 2013 6:08 PM, "Adam Nelson" <adam@varud.com> wrote:
Hello,
Some of you may know that I'm contemplating the deployment of a cloud services product physically located in Nairobi but using OpenStack so that devops people can use standard APIs. Physically locating the machines in Kenya should improve latency and perceived uptime (due to cable cuts not affecting connectivity) and make life easier for developers, administrators and users ... but I wanted to validate that with people on this list.
Is anybody already using Amazon Web Services or an OpenStack implementation? Is anybody using a VPS or similar solution and paying more than $40USD/month? Would anybody be interested in a product like this with similar pricing to Amazon's (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/)? If there were free trials, would people spend the time to learn more about how to leverage OpenStack APIs?
Cheers, Adam
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