Hello Nick,<div><br></div><div>Great initiative! And a very nice screencast. I didn't realise that GemStone can run with just 600MB of memory. Nice that it can scale down as well as up.</div><div><br></div><div>A few months ago I created a EC2 image with Pharo and Seaside, see <a href="http://blog.doit.st/ec2/">http://blog.doit.st/ec2/</a> This also runs in a Tiny EC2 image but off course, this setup has the disadvantage that you need to implement your own persistency solution.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I will definitely try out your GemStone EC2 image.</div><div><br></div><div>Jan.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Nick Ager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.ager@gmail.com">nick.ager@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Amazon's offer of a free micro instance for a year[1] grabbed my attention:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a new free usage tier. Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year...</blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>I've created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) (ami-7f9bae0b) which is preconfigured with a webserver, Gemstone, GemTools into which I've loaded Seaside 3.03 and latest Pier code. You should be able to use the machine image to rapidly deploy your Seaside applications or use the AMI as the basis for your own improved configuration, then share that configuration back with the community. Creating and sharing modified configurations is relatively straight-forward [2].</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've documented how to use my AMI to create your own free EC2 instances - <a href="http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Create-a-free-Gemstone-server-in-the-cloud-in-10-minutes" target="_blank">http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Create-a-free-Gemstone-server-in-the-cloud-in-10-minutes</a></div>
<div>There's an accompanying screencast - <a href="http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Screencast-creating-a-new-instance-based-on-pre-configured-AMI" target="_blank">http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Screencast-creating-a-new-instance-based-on-pre-configured-AMI</a> or on Vimeo <a href="http://vimeo.com/18375790" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/18375790</a></div>
<div>I've also documented the process of creating the AMI - <a href="http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Installing-Gemstone-on-an-Amazon-EC2-Linux-instance" target="_blank">http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Installing-Gemstone-on-an-Amazon-EC2-Linux-instance</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Have fun</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/free/" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/free/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/CreateAReusableAmazonMachineInstance" target="_blank">http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/CreateAReusableAmazonMachineInstance</a></div>
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