Posted by primeworks on May 30, 2013 at 12:28am
I've been using BOA for a year and it's been great except that I've never been able to create more than four instances on my EC2 debian instances. I've had to create new servers just so I can have more octopus instances. Is this normal for BOA or is there a way out of this?
I'm putting more accounts on the servers and having to create a new EC2 instance everytime is getting expensive.
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Probably best to file a
Probably best to file a support request in the Octopus issue queue. It's definitely an issue worthy of investigation.
A Memory Issue?
I decided to bloat my recent EC2 Debian instance into the "large instance" type and the instance suddenly starts creating extra octopus accounts! I'm guessing that the amount of memory available on small and medium instance types is not enough to run beyond 4 accounts.
I'm only making an observation, no data or documentation to back it up. Anyone with more info on this should please contribute. There may be other users out there wondering why.
BOA doesn't limit the number
BOA doesn't limit the number of Octopus instances you can create, but you didn't provide any details to determine what really caused the problem - it is not even clear what you mean by "Can't create" - so we can't really offer any hints.