Well we did not think the day would come, but Chaggle.com has moved over to the Amazon Cloud. Chaggle is a new entry into the "Chat" scene. We sometimes say social networking, but I think it will actually go beyond social networking. Mainly because the Chaggle technology just takes the Internet experience, which is currently flat in my opinion, and adds a 3rd dimension. So what I envision and really what we started off envisioning is that you will be able to just casually happen into people at the same website just as you do in regular store.
This is really about the Amazon EC2 platform and our experience moving over. I read so much about this thing they called the "Cloud" and of course the Amazon EC2. The more I read the more I thought I knew, but at the same time the more confused I became. I finally decided just to sign up for a Amazon EC2 account and see what I could figure out. I had already watched youtube videos of people launching instances and it just looked so easy I knew there was a catch somewhere. The reality of it all was that I spent $6.00 for my server time and a few nights launching instances and attaching the EBS volumes.
As far as the youtube videos making it seem so easy, well it really was. Amazon uses what they call Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) and I just went and picked out one of the public AMI's that was a close fit to what we needed and launched it. If you sign up for a EC2 account you can go to the control panel and see what I am talking about.
If you successfully log in and find a AMI that you like, you can make modifications to it and then you can bundle that image and store it in your S3 account for later use. You can also take a public AMI make changes to it rename your copy and make it a private AMI. If your instance fails it may be important to relaunch as quickly as possible. If you launch an AMI and make a lot of modifications to it while it's running and the instance terminates or fails, well if you did not bundle those changes and save them in S3 storage it's lost. If you did bundle your AMI and save it, then relaunching takes only a matter of minutes!
In our case we found a public AMI that matched our needs and we are still tweaking on it at the moment. Once everyone is finished up we will bundle again and be off and running using the Amazon EC2! I will continue to post some updates on our progress. At the moment the architecure is very simplistic. We are working toward a configuration that will scale up for us as user demand increases.
I will be back with more updates as we continue to progress and learn more about this animal they call the "Cloud". I am confident that between Clayton, Wayne and myself that we will figure it all out.
Talk to you guys on Chaggle,
Gregman
www.chaggle.com
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