On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:45 PM, George Christman <gchrist...@cardaddy.com>wrote:
> So far it's been really cheap. 59 dollars for the month and im running a > second rds to host my old database. Keep in mind im still under the free > tier, but realisticly where are you going to get this kind of support or > hardware this cheap. No reserve instances yet. > > I've also been hosting an old 5.3 app on a medium ec2 with a small rds for > almost year. Average cost has been around 147/mo under free tier. > Thanks George. It's not too bad, but a smaller VPS provider would be able to easily beat the price. However, I've always though it's ok to pay more for automatic up-scalability. Kalle Cardaddy bill > On Mar 20, 2014 5:20 PM, "Kalle Korhonen" <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:34 PM, George Christman >> <gchrist...@cardaddy.com>wrote: >> >> > Thanks Guys, I'm glad you like it and yes I like this one a lot better >> than >> > my old one, so much simpler in 5.4. >> > >mate, she's a super fast website and i've gotta say looks better than >> the >> > >previous version. >> > You would probably be amazed to know it's being hosted with amazons >> elastic >> > beanstalk on a single small instance. It does have the ability to scale >> up >> > instances automatically, but I have yet to see it happen. Traffic isn't >> to >> > crazy yet, but I've managed to do over 4000 visits, almost 31 thousand >> page >> > views, and nearly 500 post in the past couple weeks while still >> performing >> > very well on a little instance. I'd also like to say I'm currently >> storing >> > the lucene index in memory without issue, Tap 5.4 appears to perform >> very >> > well thus far. >> > >> >> How much are you paying, if I may ask (for comparison purposes), and are >> you using reserved instances? >> >> Kalle >> >> >> >> > >i noticed the images.cardaddy.com resolves to AWS. out of >> curiousity, >> > was >> > >this hard to configure? >> > >> > Very simple, I just used their API and had everything up and running in >> one >> > night. I just like the redundancy amazon can give me. >> > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/llJavaUploadFile.html >> > >> > >i am interested in things breaking, so - where exactly did the exploit >> for >> > >bringing down the old service come from? >> > >apache http -> app server? and what version of apache were you using? >> > >> > It wasn't the application, it was apache. My partner hadn't done >> security >> > updates on the server in nearly 3 years and at the time I lacked the >> > knowledge or skill to do it myself. This is the reason I have since >> > migrated my app to aws, I do not have time to deal with those kinds of >> > issues. Now if I lose a server, aws will have a new on up and running >> > before I even knew what happened. :) >> > >> > >i have just deployed version-1.0.9 of an internal ip address app that >> is >> > >written on tapestry-5.3 and am FINALLY getting onto a simple tapestry >> 5.4 >> > >project from scratch. >> > >> > Once you make the move to 5.4, you'll never look back, the tap team has >> > done an incredible job. I'm very pleased with the results. >> > >> > >> > >I also checked out the link when you sent it, nice job! I found myself >> > >imagining how you laid out the components. =) >> > >> > Thanks man, now if I only had a pro helping me out lol. Everything is >> > rather simple, hardly any custom javascript, which makes Tapestry a huge >> > win for me as a lone developer :) The hardest part is designing >> everything >> > around search engines. I must have fell on my head years ago when I >> decided >> > to get into the automotive space, it has to be the most competitive >> space >> > on the web to be. I spend most of my time trying to build URLs, pages, >> and >> > components to rank well in google. I find that ends up dictating my >> > components and design. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > congratulations, >> > chris >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:59 AM, George Christman >> > <gchrist...@cardaddy.com>wrote: >> > >> > > I'd like to first say thanks to all who have contributed to the on >> going >> > > evolution of Tapestry and it's support. I'm a long time user of >> Tapestry >> > > starting with version 3 in 2005 and I must say leaps and bounds have >> been >> > > made since then. I'd also like to say thanks to all who have >> continued to >> > > answer my never ending array of questions ;-) Thanks guys! It has >> been a >> > > pleasure working with you all. >> > > >> > > In 2008 we took a risk and decided to move forward with t5 beta over >> > > spring with the development of our new app. We experienced some short >> > lived >> > > glorious times as we successfully processed hundreds of thousands of >> > users >> > > and cars, however do to our nations elected official and his cash for >> > > clunkers program, it destroyed our market place forcing me to have to >> > > change our brand to CarDaddy.com. >> > > >> > > With the lack of success with the new brand I eventually had to move >> on >> > to >> > > other opportunities. I ended up taking a job with our state >> government >> > and >> > > some contract work for a hotel wireless company, however along with my >> > > move, I decided to bring along my dear friend Tapestry5. Tapestry5 has >> > > ended up becoming an active platform within my organizations which we >> are >> > > now actively focused on building 5.4 apps. :) >> > > >> > > While being focused with my other work, my personal app which was >> still >> > > being ran on T5.1 was lacking support and ended up getting hacked >> > (apache) >> > > three weeks ago by the Chinese bringing down my servers. This forced >> me >> > to >> > > have to whip up a new application over the past three weeks by myself >> in >> > > 5.4 and yup, that wasn't a typo, only three weeks and that includes >> > mobile >> > > too, okay maybe they were 3 very long weeks, but I still managed to >> > pulled >> > > it off and I don't think I could have without the help of T5.4, >> jquery, >> > > bootstrap etc :) Well I'd like to share my new app with the community >> > while >> > > once again pushing out a beta app into production :) I realize there >> is a >> > > lot of room for improvement, so feel free to suggest away. Growth >> seems >> > to >> > > be on the rise as traffic / inventory continue to increase daily and I >> > > don't have a doubt in my mind that Tapestry won't be up for the job. >> > > >> > > Once again, thank you guys for all you have done. >> > > >> > > New 5.4-beta3 site >> > > www.cardaddy.com >> > > >> > > >> > > Cheers, >> > > George >> > > >> > > -- >> > > George Christman >> > > www.CarDaddy.com >> > > P.O. Box 735 >> > > Johnstown, New York >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > George Christman >> > www.CarDaddy.com >> > P.O. Box 735 >> > Johnstown, New York >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >
