Yup, the plan is to use the pre-prod box to host our VMs. Currently we've got an Linux VM Image with 256MB RAM running on our desktops but now we're thinking of having something running 24/7 that we can all have our git repositories on, run tests, login remotely,etc. All our code is written in Objective-C (Mac/iPhone side) and django/python (web side).
As for scaling, we'd considering the Amazon AWS path or an alternative provider like Mosso. Our app isn't a facebook app and as much as I'd love to have 100K users in days or being slashdotted/dugg to death - I can't see that happening immediately while the word is still getting out (at least for a few months)? We are trying to be as pragmatic as possible and save enough money to at least have one meal of rice + tomato sauce per day - maybe drink some milk if we're lucky :-) At the same time, we don't want to disappoint those that use our app - so we've tried writing code with scalability in mind and have contingency plans for any massive increase in traffic. On 20/01/2009, at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote: > > Unfortuately - All depends on how much resource your application > needs. What technologies / platform / framework are you using? > > In term of a VPS. We use slicehost in the US -- linode also have a > great reputation. We get by with ~256Mb with a low load - however, our > app is mostly c/c++ and quite frugal with memory. A large Java or Ruby > framework will need more RAM, as will a database if it's a DB > intensive application. > > Do you need a dedicated pre-prod environment, or can you get away with > Virtual Machines? If you're going to target a 256Mb slice you could > easily VM that on your desktop. > > J > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Shaon Diwakar <sh...@shaon.net> > wrote: >> >> Hi, sorry to spam, but as a group of starving startup peeps, I >> thought >> I'd ask if anyone has any old desktop/servers which they are planning >> to throw out? The only proviso is that it has to be in working order >> and in Sydney so that we can come collect :-) >> >> We plan on using it as our pre-prod environment before we deploy to >> an >> dedicated server in the USA (man talk about getting hit with forex >> fluctuations!!!). >> >> Also, on that note - I'd love to hear about the types of servers >> people have used to host their own projects. I know some folks have >> deployed Quad Core Xeons with 16GB RAM and Terabytes of disk space >> for >> their start-ups - but have < 1000 users / day. What do you think: >> Overkill or appropriate? >> >> We're thinking about running Ubuntu Linux on a VPS in the USA with >> 294MB RAM - I doubt we'd get more than 100+ users/day for the first >> few months and we'd be doing well to get 1000+ users/day. >> >> Any thoughts on ramping up & scalability would be appreciated :D >> >> Cheers, >> Shaon >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
