Hi, Despite various hickups along the way, the new Hudson master and the extra solaris slave we got from the old master seem to have gone a long way to addressing the chronic capacity problems we had earlier ([1] looks a lot better than it used to). Thus the need for my earlier idea (for which I also lobbied initial budget approval) of setting up an extra on-demand slave on EC2 for handling load peaks has mostly gone away.
So the question is, should I still look at setting up an EC2 slave? Beyond load balancing, the other reason for running builds in the cloud is the availability of a wider variety of build environments. Basically we could provision an on-demand build slave for any environment for which an AMI exists or can be created. I don't have a pressing need for that from the projects I work with, but perhaps others are interested? [1] https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/load-statistics?type=hour BR, Jukka Zitting
