Examples

Gists of some poolparty configurations

1. Sample rails spec
2. Sample static site spec (doesn’t currently work)
3. Sample nginx-based clouds.rb

Single-instance pools

• Apache static site
• Apache + PHP site
• All-in-one Rails site with Passenger and MySQL

Multiple-instance pools

• Replicated MySQL: Master-slave on EBS
• Replicated MySQL: Master-master on EBS
• Memcached

Multi-tier pools

• Typical Rails site: Apache + Mongrel + MySQL
• Typical Rails site #2: Apache + Passenger + Memcached + MySQL
• Load-balanced Apache site: Haproxy + Apache
• Load-balanced Rails site: Haproxy + Apache + Passenger + Memcached + Replicated MySQL

Auto-scaling

• Rails
• MySQL
• Memcached