Posted by giorgio79 on May 7, 2013 at 8:59am
Hello,
Been looking at https://www.openshift.com/developers/pricing#faq-what-are-scaling-threshold
Looks impressive to me especially the autoscaling part. Any experiences?
Hello,
Been looking at https://www.openshift.com/developers/pricing#faq-what-are-scaling-threshold
Looks impressive to me especially the autoscaling part. Any experiences?
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I've been testing it for
I've been testing it for about a two months now.
Launching an instance on a single non-scalable gear is painless and quick.
But, getting Drupal to scale's a bit of a bother. We need to change quite a few settings so that the haproxy frontend doesn't crash or time-out.
And we've got to replace Drupals file system with something more persistent, like Amazons S3.
Installing Drupal on a non-scalable gear is easy and seems faster than the same install on a scalable gear, but that's because everythings local.
If we set our gear to scale, pages take a bit longer to load as the additional gears are on a different machine. But under load this should perform better.
Openshift recommends that you use Git to deploy your app and push changes, but you don't have to.
You can sftp into your gear and upload your modules, files etc as you would in a normal shared hosting environment.
+1
+1
Openshift + Drupal + Github ?