Some very early morning tinkering sessions have yielded my 2nd production app move onto some very interesting cloud hosting platforms ... e.g. Heroku and Xeround.
Wakeboard.com now runs on Heroku using Xeround as the scalable cloud based backend db.
I'm trialling Xeround for a month to see how it performs and so far it's been reasonable, now that I've shifted the db instance to the US as having it in Ireland (Amazon's Euro server location) proved sluggish.
Setup was easy on the Xeround site, and a little tricky on Heroku to get the two to talk together... guess they really want you to use their Postgresql offerings.
So I now have my Ruby on Rails website platform running on dev, staging, and two live instances... managing all this via Git and Heroku is proving to be pretty good and I can code on the train then deploy back in the home office, geek heaven.
Wakeboard.com now runs on Heroku using Xeround as the scalable cloud based backend db.
I'm trialling Xeround for a month to see how it performs and so far it's been reasonable, now that I've shifted the db instance to the US as having it in Ireland (Amazon's Euro server location) proved sluggish.
Setup was easy on the Xeround site, and a little tricky on Heroku to get the two to talk together... guess they really want you to use their Postgresql offerings.
So I now have my Ruby on Rails website platform running on dev, staging, and two live instances... managing all this via Git and Heroku is proving to be pretty good and I can code on the train then deploy back in the home office, geek heaven.
Interesting. How did you get Rails to talk to the Xeround DB? I haven't had much luck yet following their instructions here:
ReplyDeletehttp://xeround.com/developers/heroku-cloud-database-mysql/
JV, hi.. yeah, it's a little confusing, I have just detailed what I did at http://www.nevill.net/2011/09/how-to-setup-heroku-app-with-external.html , hope this helps. Let me know if it works for you, good luck!
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