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Amazon EC2 and SFS2X

Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 22:03
by tchen
I'm not sure how the license IP check works, but will Amazon's Elastic IP address for EC2 be sufficient?

Or will there be a license server for 2X as well one day?

P.S. Has anyone here tried running the server in a EC2 micro yet?

Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 07:57
by vooood
a good question because that's where I plan to run SF, too!

Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 11:48
by ThomasLund
While I havent run anything on EC2 myself, I know that there has been an announcement of a license server. So that part is coming.

/Thomas

Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 14:36
by Lapo
Yes, absolutely. We are working on it and expect to launch it in Q1 2011.
The License Server will not be local, but online using an highly available service. This will allow any customer to manage their license(s) with a simple web-based interface and eliminate the IP-based licensing model.

Posted: 26 Dec 2010, 15:13
by vooood
Lapo wrote:Yes, absolutely. We are working on it and expect to launch it in Q1 2011.
The License Server will not be local, but online using an highly available service. This will allow any customer to manage their license(s) with a simple web-based interface and eliminate the IP-based licensing model.


this is very good to hear!

Posted: 26 Dec 2010, 16:51
by tchen
Same.

and @vooood I've fired it up on a EC2 micro instance running ubuntu 9.10 and it works just fine. It'll probably need something bigger later, but this works for production.

Cheers,
ted

Posted: 27 Dec 2010, 10:01
by Lapo
What do you mean by "micro instance"? What are its characteristics?

Posted: 27 Dec 2010, 13:22
by tchen
Lapo wrote:What do you mean by "micro instance"? What are its characteristics?


Micro was introduced this sept.

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-n ... mazon-ec2/

Basically, its a slow (and cheap) 613MB instance that doesn't have local instance storage. It uses EBS for sda1 which may incur performance issues if SFS2X uses /tmp a lot. I/O is still a lot faster than my old 256MB rackspace cloud server though.

So far, I can't complain but then again, I don't have any users or much load on it.

Re: Amazon EC2 and SFS2X

Posted: 27 Dec 2010, 13:25
by tchen
tchen wrote:I'm not sure how the license IP check works, but will Amazon's Elastic IP address for EC2 be sufficient?


Just an update: the license file does not see/check against the Elastic IP.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010, 14:09
by Lapo
Basically, its a slow (and cheap) 613MB instance that doesn't have local instance storage. It uses EBS for sda1 which may incur performance issues if SFS2X uses /tmp a lot. I/O is still a lot faster than my old 256MB rackspace cloud server though.

Interesting. I've read about it but didn't have time to check the details. 600Mb+ should be more than enough to get started, not bad at all.
As regards the /tmp folder, SFS2X uses it very rarely.
Let us know how it goes when you get some traffic.

License Server Availability

Posted: 09 Apr 2011, 00:26
by aardee
Hi Lapo,

Is there an ETA on the availability of the License Server for Smartfox 2X Server.

Thanks!

Lapo wrote:Yes, absolutely. We are working on it and expect to launch it in Q1 2011.
The License Server will not be local, but online using an highly available service. This will allow any customer to manage their license(s) with a simple web-based interface and eliminate the IP-based licensing model.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 12:29
by Bax
We will launch the LS together with the final release of SFS2X.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 16:41
by dingo
this might be interesting for some: http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 21:42
by Democre
We are also running on a micro Ubuntu EC2 instance. No problems other than trying to run profilers across the pipes. But that's to be expected.

We are not using an elastic IP yet, though. Our license file is for the instance's IP.

would like to know if license server is out

Posted: 18 Oct 2011, 04:14
by itsmylifesoham
Hi,

I saw Lapo's post regarding launch of license server in Q1 2011 in order to deploy sfs in EC2 cloud.

I would like to know if its up for SFS2X.

thanks. :)