Mercury 0.71-Beta Released

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Posted by Greg Coit on November 4, 2009 at 6:28pm

Mercury 0.71-Beta has been released with small bugfixes (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/projectmercury for details).

AMI IDs are:

US 32-bit: ami-bd7c9fd4 - chapter3-storage/PANTHEON-pressflow-mercury-0.71-Beta.manifest.xml
US 64-bit: ami-b17c9fd8 - chapter3-storage/PANTHEON-pressflow-mercury64-0.71-Beta.manifest.xml
EU 32-bit: ami-8f2c07fb - chapter3-storage-europe/PANTHEON-pressflow-mercury-0.71-Beta.manifest.xml
EU 64-bit: ami-73230807 - chapter3-storage-europe/PANTHEON-pressflow-mercury64-0.71-Beta.manifest.xml

We're still working on making Mercury even more stable, faster and easier to use - keep those suggestions coming!

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Two instances available

Posted by R-H on November 7, 2009 at 4:48pm
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On the EC2 Community AMI tab there are two instances of the Mercury AMI. What's the difference?

• ami-b17c9fd8
• ami-bd7c9fd4

This is the 32 bit version of

Posted by Greg Coit on November 7, 2009 at 6:52pm
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This is the 32 bit version of Mercury:
ami-bd7c9fd4

This is the 64 bit version of Mercury:
ami-b17c9fd8

Hope this helps,

Greg

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Thanks

Posted by R-H on November 7, 2009 at 7:11pm
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Any guidance on when to use which version?

Thanks!

32 bit vs 64 bit

Posted by Greg Coit on November 9, 2009 at 2:58am
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The short answer is this: if you don't know what version you want, pick the 32-bit. It's mush less expensive to run (small instance versus large instance) and will handle most sites. When you start pushing the limits of the 32-bit server, then it's time for the 64-bit.

Greg

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