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[isthisthingon]

The open source project: http://code.google.com/p/scalr/
The cloud hosted option: https://scalr.net/login.php

I just learned about this gem of an open source project earlier today when I joined a Silicon Valley cloud computing Meetup.  This is definitely something perks and nutballs should look at for obvious reasons.  The following diagram should pique your interest:



Check out the screencast.  Sure, it's hard to out impress the 3Teras of the world, but you don't even need to use their cloud service.  You can grab the project, build it and host it on your own farms    All you need is an Amazon web services account and presto, the promise of cloud elasticity is yours.  If you already have a home for the LAMP stack (perk/nuts) then host it there if you wish.

Even if EC2 is not something you would choose to employ, those who would consider this architectural path would benefit from an incredibly agile business model.  And of course since it's open source I'm seriously tempted to roll my sleeves up and contribute to the project.  Talk about ADD   I can't even stick with my Python training long enough to become a solid Ubuntu contributor 

Actually I'll keep that moving along as well.  But this project describes that very thing I've been hunting for since cloud computing infected my soul.  Good work Sebastion.

Enjoy!

[kurdt]

Hmm, doesn't MySQL start to crumble quite fast when you do BIG DATA? I checked the screencast but it was so brief that it didn't really demonstrate if there's any alternatives around for databases?

But since it's open source, I could make it to support CouchDB or something else so this is really awesome catch ITTO

[perkiset]

@ Kurdt re. crumble big: not really anymore. It can't go as big as Oracle or Sybase, but it can go pretty damn big safely now.

Nice one ITTO - I'm sort of LOL because that's almost a diagram of my original retail web servers (at least the farm part) - the only difference is I didn't put MySQL slaves on (nice touch there) and I have memcached running on the proxied web servers themselves. Can't afford that many machines They are still in production today (went up in '03). I had to use a variety of languages and techniques to pull it off, but it runs like a champ.

Nuts and I are actually building a highly optimized cloud for a specific niche ... although the work we've done will translate well to a lot of other arenas. I'll let you know how it looks when we're actually deployed. The machines are on order, should be up and in production within 4 weeks.

Thanks meng