Hello,
I have to admit... this thing is pretty cool!
especially the load balancer... and servers standing by... if you need more servers auto scale creates them automatically for you...
however, I am stuck on how to create an API for auto scale...
Can I have someone with experienced guys to help me with API please?
Basically, rackspace have schedule scale (this sucks... coz you need to predict traffic SPIKE)
and webhook URL... this is the one that identifies if the current server is using a certain percentage of resources... then your auto scale kicks in...
special mention @_mcr_ I know he posted about this... and which is actually the reason why I am trying out rackspace servers...
How do I setup a webhook URL (or create one) that detects the current server resources and if a certain percentage is reached.. the auto scale kicks-in...
I used to run rackspace. If nobody can help you out here, make sure you check out odesk.com and hire the best rackspace-familiar guy you can find. $200 and you'll have your solution, tailored...
@redrummr
thanks for the input.. but the reason why I picked rackspace is because they are easier than of amazon ec2 and other AWS...
that is why I tested this out... and now I really want it.. lol... the commitment ($MONEY) is very small.. not like a VPS/Dedicated server... which you cannot scale up or down...
you can start as low as $60 2gb server... and if you scale your traffic... to millions... your rackspace server can also scale up to 10 or 20 or 100+ servers... and if traffic goes down... you also scale down automatically... which is very COOL!
anyway... was hoping to get this API (resources setup) for free here at STM... lol...
You can scale all the same with lots of VPS providers other than Rackspace - in some cases you may just have to get in touch with support, in others you can do it from a control panel easily.
As for the API stuff... don't rely on STM, we aren't StackExchange or a programming forum - get someone experienced to do something specifically for your setup.
If you're not a coder/sysadmin, implementing anything someone handed out here would be risky anyway.
Anyway, Rackspace/AWS are great in the whole scale-as-needed aspect, but if you aren't running high volumes that spike up and down then it's not very cost effective vs. having a higher value for money VPS from somewhere else (that still might support scaling... e.g Linode), and VPS on separate continents, or even a dedicated with some web acceleration tech in front of it.
Personally I'd opt for Linode over Rackspace any day. Cheaper and it's a smaller, performance-orientated hoster vs an enterprise level hoster than tries to cover every web tech.
Yep, very much agree with Zeno here.
Unless you're running very high volume, you're best just getting a solid, reliable server going, then concentrating on other things.
A 4Gb VPS will do you fine up to quite considerable volumes - we were testing the STM Mobile Tracker on a Digital Ocean 4Gb VPS the other day, and it was unhappy but just about coping with 800,000 clicks a day!