Comments on: Ravelry in Bullet Points http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/ Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:42:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Salman http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-563 Salman Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:37:19 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-563 I love these kinds of posts :)

Curious, when running your own rack, can you list all the hardware (and rough pricing) of things you need OTHER than the actual servers? i.e. switches, power supplies etc.

]]> By: chief http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-561 chief Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:28:28 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-561 ..and the Secret of Monkey Island is the best game ever!

]]> By: chief http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-559 chief Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:27:33 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-559 I am interested in how you learned to set all of this up. Can you recommend any books or blogs for scaling up a rails project like this. I just have a basic setup with a single nginx server and a single passenger application server, which is adequate for now at least.

]]> By: Audreygs http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-557 Audreygs Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:48:08 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-557 Trust me when I say you will NEED a co-pilot once your “passenger” load increases.

~ Audrey from Burbank’s Unwind

]]> By: Rob Bazinet http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-555 Rob Bazinet Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:38:10 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-555 Great post, I love these types of posts. Info is very interesting.

I am curious why you chose Gentoo as your distro?

Do you find any advantages of MariaDB over plain MySQL?

]]> By: David Mann http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-553 David Mann Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:25:03 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-553 The growth from “it works on my development workstation” to “we’re serving up millions of pages a month” is fascinating. Interesting to see the evolution of the technology behind the site.

I will send mojo your way if/when a copilot search is initiated. Finding someone on the same wavelength can really help when bouncing ideas around and I’m sure it would be nice to have a backup in case you wanted to try something novel like taking a week or two off :)

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]]> By: Jeff Putz http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-549 Jeff Putz Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:04:44 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-549 That’s what I was most curious about. There are certainly cost advantages at a certain scale, but it’s hard to know where that scale is.

]]> By: casey http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-547 casey Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:01:47 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-547 Hi Jeff,

I’ve used Amazon AWS on occasion when I needed a lot of power for a short time (for example, creating millions of thumbnails for all of our images when we added a higher resolution thumbnail)

It’s just way too expensive for us.. and the advantages are few. Our half rack isn’t a sysadmin burden and our growth and traffic is pretty predictable and not very prone to spikes.

]]> By: Jeff Putz http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-545 Jeff Putz Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:57:26 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-points/#comment-545 Great post as always. Have you looked into any cloud-based hosting and services? We recently deployed a new app at work (in Azure, naturally), and it was in a lot of ways a really freeing experience in terms of worrying about scale.

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