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Tag: ec2

EC2 is basically one big rip-off

First of all, let me set this straight: I LOVE Amazon Web Services. I’ve been using EC2 for about 6 years and Defensio has always been entirely running on AWS. The flexibility is unparalleled and the variety of services such as EC2, ELB, EBS, S3 and CloudFront is a joy to use. However, there’s a problem with EC2. [...]

Deploying Rails on the Cheap

Yesterday, I presented at Montreal on Rails.  What a great crowd it was! As promised, here are my slides.  Feel free to get in touch if you have any question about my presentation.